Custer County, ID: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Custer County, Idaho, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 14/100 at the top down to 6/100. DLRadar scores 7 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 12/100. On bank and credit headwind, Custer County scores 83/100, a stressed reading.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 1.5% over twelve months (phase confidence 31/100). This late in the run, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

Custer County's topped-out +1.5% YoY (31/100 confidence) means opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. Its 83/100 lender headwind signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Highest scores land in 83235 (14/100), 83226 (13/100), 83227 (13/100), 83251 (13/100), 83253 (13/100), 83278 (13/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 83255.

Demographically, Custer County's tracked footprint report a median household income near $56,598 (below the US norm), vacancy near 46.1%, home values averaging roughly $365,900, in line with the US, a median age of 54, 10.4% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 87%. Numbers like these shape the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Net of it all, 12/100 over 7 ZIPs means Custer County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Custer County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

No county is too small to score: Custer County, Idaho runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Custer County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Idaho.

The practical read on Custer County, Idaho is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. What supports the Custer County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Custer County leads with 83235 (14/100), 83226 (13/100), 83227 (13/100), 83251 (13/100), 83253 (13/100), 83278 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 83255 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Custer County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.