Benton County, MN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

For Benton County, Minnesota, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Lender pressure in Benton County registers 52/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. ZIP-level distress ranges from 22/100 at the top down to 8/100. 9 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 12/100 distress.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.2% over twelve months, at 22/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +3.2% YoY (22/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 52/100 lender headwind means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

By composite, 56377 (22/100), 56373 (19/100), 56304 (15/100), 56367 (12/100), 55371 (10/100), 56329 (9/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Coverage extends to 56330, 56357, 56379 among others.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Benton County come in at vacancy near 5.3%, median home values around $288,544 (below the national figure), 7.4% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 37, a median household income near $79,402 (near the US norm), 78% owner-occupancy. Income, equity and tenure like these shape who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

At 12/100 composite over 9 ZIPs, Benton County is a screen-by-ZIP market for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Benton County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

Treat Benton County, Minnesota as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. The Benton County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Benton County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 56377 (22/100), 56373 (19/100), 56304 (15/100), 56367 (12/100), 55371 (10/100), 56329 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 56330, 56357, 56379 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Benton 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.