ZIP 66770 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Cherokee County, Kansas · High Vacancy market
In Cherokee County, Kansas, ZIP 66770 scores 20 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100)). Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (53/100), structural risk (45/100), mortgage stress (13/100). mortgage stress (13/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 45/100, 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 20/100 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 20/100 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 66770
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
The 66770 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 66770, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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The complete 66770 distress and acquisition report
The full 66770 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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