ZIP 53940 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 53940 (Sauk County, Wisconsin) at a low 19/100 for overall property distress. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (40/100), institutional ownership (32/100), construction/permit lag (14/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (32/100) and construction/permit lag (14/100). Structural risk reads 40/100 against active distress of 0/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (75/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.3% year on year, at 32/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

On balance, 53940 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 53940's 19/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 53940 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 19/100 figure for 53940 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 53940 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.