ZIP 66949 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 66949 (Jewell County, Kansas) at a minimal 8/100 for overall property distress. What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (23/100), structural risk (16/100), mortgage stress (15/100). By contrast, structural risk (16/100) and mortgage stress (15/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 16/100, with 4/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year (phase confidence 25/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

About 521 people live here, median age 42. A median home runs $71,300 here, or 1.6 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 304 housing units. Owners hold 76% of homes, renters 24%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 22/100. At $44,844, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 10% of renters are cost-burdened. About 16% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 14.9% — elevated. 17.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Net-net, 66949 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.

Big metro or rural, 66949 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 8/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Jewell County, Kansas and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 66949 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 66949'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. The point of the 66949 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.