ZIP 68827 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Merrick County, Nebraska's ZIP 68827 registers 15/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. On the structural side it scores 34/100, with 1/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (69/100), structural risk (34/100), institutional ownership (5/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (5/100) and mortgage stress (4/100).

The market reads contraction — home values fell 1.5% year on year, 1.5% off the recent peak, at 61/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

At $64,911, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 7.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 342 housing units. Vacancy runs 15.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented. The typical home is worth about $430,400. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. Rent burden reaches 30% of tenant households. 737 residents call 68827 home, typically aged 35.

Net-net, 68827 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, 68827 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 15/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Merrick County, Nebraska and the nation. Sparse data for 68827 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

The 15/100 figure for 68827 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. In workflow terms, 68827 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.