---
title: "Reported tax/foreclosure distress COUNT + breakdown near a point (wired counties; free preview)"
method: POST
path: "/api/locus_tax_distress"
tags: ["tax-distress", "foreclosure", "delinquent", "parcels", "read-only", "free", "free"]
---

# Reported tax/foreclosure distress COUNT + breakdown near a point (wired counties; free preview)

`POST /api/locus_tax_distress`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.locus.report`
- URL: `https://api.locus.report/api/locus_tax_distress`
- Auth: none required

FREE preview of nearby parcels with a REPORTED public-record tax or foreclosure status near a point — tax delinquency, tax-lien sale, tax/mortgage foreclosure, sheriff sale, tax auction — from wired official county/treasurer/sheriff GIS sources. Returns COVERAGE + a nearby COUNT + a distress-type breakdown (byType), NOT the itemized records: the per-record site address, amount owed, and parcel id are the paid locus-tax-liens lookup. Use when the user asks whether/how many tax-distressed, delinquent, foreclosure, tax-sale, or sheriff-sale properties are near an address in a covered county. Coverage (registry-derived): Pinal County, AZ (tax delinquency); Yavapai County, AZ (tax-lien sale); Shasta County, CA (tax auction); Orange County, FL (mortgage foreclosure); Dakota County, MN (mortgage foreclosure); Craven County, NC (tax foreclosure); Allen County, OH (tax delinquency); Franklin County, OH (tax foreclosure, tax delinquency); Mahoning County, OH (tax delinquency); Stark County, OH (tax delinquency); Horry County, SC (tax delinquency); Bexar County, TX (tax foreclosure, mortgage foreclosure); Cache County, UT (tax delinquency); Milwaukee County, WI (sheriff sale). Outside coverage it returns an explicit out_of_coverage with the supported scope. NEVER an owner/redemption/party name, and NEVER a 'distressed'/'deal'/'buy'/investment verdict or characterization beyond the cited public-record status. Filings are procedural — a parcel may be redeemed, paid, dismissed, or already sold. Read-only.
Use this when you need a nearby count and breakdown, without individual lien records.
Use locus-tax-liens instead when you need itemized public lien records and citations. Direct flat-body route for this one free resource; no API key, payment, or catalog wrapper. Return only the cited bounded evidence described here; this route never produces a paid brief or full report.

## Request body

- object
  - `address` string: Optional US street address or place; NC uses AddressNC first, other areas use the national geocoder fallback when latitude/longitude are not provided.
  - `latitude` number: Optional decimal latitude; provide with longitude to skip address geocoding.
  - `longitude` number: Optional decimal longitude; provide with latitude to skip address geocoding.
  - `radiusMeters` integer: Optional search radius in meters around the point; default 1500, max 8000.
  - `distressTypes` string[]: Optional filter to specific distress families (delinquent, tax_lien_sale, tax_foreclosure, mortgage_foreclosure, sheriff_sale, tax_auction, land_forfeiture); omit for all wired families.

## Response `200`

Free cited evidence response.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request body.
- `429`: Rate limited.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/locus/apis/locus-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/locus/apis/locus-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/locus/apis/locus-api/revisions/ba7786b74adb?raw)