ZIP 66738 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 66738 (Bourbon County, Kansas) at a low 17/100 for overall property distress. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (48/100), structural risk (38/100), institutional ownership (34/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (34/100) and mortgage stress (17/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 38 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, at 24/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 26.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Home values center near $430,800. About 29% have a four-year degree. 89% of housing is owner-occupied. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. The ZIP holds roughly 117 housing units. 223 residents call 66738 home, typically aged 51. Around 14% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 14.8% live below the poverty line. Median household income is $48,750, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Taken together, 66738 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 66738 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Whether 66738 runs hot or quiet, its 17/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 66738 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Bourbon County, Kansas or nationwide. Where the public record is thin for 66738, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 17/100 figure for 66738 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, 66738 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.