ZIP 66617 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Shawnee County, Kansas, ZIP 66617 scores 22 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 51/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (51/100), institutional ownership (14/100). institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (77/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.1% year on year, and 14% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

8,748 residents call 66617 home, typically aged 42. The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. Roughly 6.7% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The vacancy rate is 4.8%. A median home runs $232,900 here, or 2.4 times local income. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100. At $84,870, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Around 44% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 3,591 housing units across 66617. Educational attainment sits at 29% bachelor's-or-above.

Broadly, 66617 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 66617 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 22/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 66617 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 66617'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, 66617 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.