ZIP 66968 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 66968 in Washington County, Kansas carries a composite property-distress score of 21/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Latent structural risk is 50/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (50/100), institutional ownership (34/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (34/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, at 25/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Households earn a median $56,731 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 15% of tenant households. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 798 housing units across 66968. The typical home is worth about $124,900 (2.0× income, relatively affordable). Roughly 5.7% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. 1,435 residents call 66968 home, typically aged 50. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 20/100. The vacancy rate is 10.5%.

Overall, 66968 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The 66968 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 21/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 66968 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Washington County, Kansas. Sparse data for 66968 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

66968's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 66968 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.