ZIP 66770 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Cherokee County, Kansas, ZIP 66770 scores 17 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)). Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (39/100), structural risk (35/100), construction/permit lag (17/100). construction/permit lag (17/100) and mortgage stress (13/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 35/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year, 1.5% off the recent peak, at 18/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 17/100. The typical home is worth about $149,100 (1.5× income, relatively affordable). About 22% have a four-year degree. About 860 people live here, median age 48. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 13.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 348 housing units across 66770. Households earn a median $85,750 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 2.6% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.

Net-net, 66770 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 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: 66770 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 17/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 66770 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 17/100 figure for 66770 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 an operator, 66770 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.