ZIP 66044 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Douglas County, Kansas, ZIP 66044 scores 17 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (61/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (55/100), structural risk (38/100), institutional ownership (8/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (8/100) and mortgage stress (4/100). Structural exposure scores 38 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 21% higher over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Vacancy runs 8.1%. The poverty rate is 26.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. 37% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 12,696 housing units across 66044. Home values center near $235,000, an affordability ratio of 4.0×. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 29,052 with a median age of 25. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. Around 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Households earn a median $56,340 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

On the whole, 66044 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 66044 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 66044 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 17/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Douglas County, Kansas and the nation. 66044 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

66044's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 66044 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.