ZIP 66840 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 66840 in Butler County, Kansas carries a composite property-distress score of 24/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (71/100), structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (35/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (35/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) register low. Structurally it carries 54/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 3.8% year on year (phase confidence 20/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Population is roughly 554 with a median age of 38. 17.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%. Educational attainment sits at 14% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 249 housing units across 66840. Households earn a median $55,469 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 14.3% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100. A median home runs $86,000 here, or 1.6 times local income. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households.

Taken together, 66840 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 66840 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 66840 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 24/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 66840 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Butler County, Kansas. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 66840, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 24/100 figure for 66840 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. Treat 66840 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.