ZIP 66517 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 66517 in Riley County, Kansas carries a composite property-distress score of 23/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (51/100), institutional ownership (39/100), construction/permit lag (31/100). construction/permit lag (31/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (65/100)). The split runs 51/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 36/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The vacancy rate is 20.1% — elevated. Owners hold 53% of homes, renters 47%. There are about 889 housing units across 66517. Educational attainment sits at 33% bachelor's-or-above. 4.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $156,800, an affordability ratio of 2.4× — accessible. At $61,953, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households. 1,628 residents call 66517 home, typically aged 28.

Net-net, 66517 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 66517 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 66517 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 23/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 66517 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 23/100 for 66517 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 66517 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.