ZIP 53942 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 53942's composite property-distress score is 19/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Sauk County, Wisconsin. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (40/100), institutional ownership (32/100), construction/permit lag (14/100). construction/permit lag (14/100) and mortgage stress (3/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 40 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (75/100)).

The expansion-phase market in 53942 posted values that rose 5.3% over the year (phase confidence 32/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

4.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 60% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $133,300 here, or 1.1 times local income. Households earn a median $108,393 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. Population is roughly 151 with a median age of 41. The ZIP holds roughly 65 housing units. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. The vacancy rate is 0.0%.

Broadly, 53942 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. There is no property file for 53942 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Big metro or rural, 53942 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 19/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Sauk County, Wisconsin and the nation. Where the public record is thin for 53942, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 53942's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 53942 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.