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

For Houston County, Minnesota, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. ZIP-level distress ranges from 23/100 at the top down to 14/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 51/100. DLRadar scores 9 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 17/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 5.0% over the past year, a 31/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, distress turns selective as the ZIP scores below show.

With Houston County flat at +5.0% YoY (31/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 51/100 lender headwind points to both signal sets in play here.

By composite, 55954 (23/100), 55919 (17/100), 55921 (17/100), 55931 (17/100), 55941 (17/100), 55971 (17/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. The breakdown continues through 55974, 55943, 55947 and more.

By the numbers, Houston County's tracked footprint come in at typical home values near $210,500, poverty running near 6.6%, 83% of homes owner-occupied, a 9% vacancy rate, a median age of 44.4, household income averaging about $76,822, roughly at the national median. These fundamentals set up the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

At 17/100 composite over 9 ZIPs, Houston County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Houston County parcel: owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

The practical read on Houston County, Minnesota is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. All Houston County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

Drilling in, Houston County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 55954 (23/100), 55919 (17/100), 55921 (17/100), 55931 (17/100), 55941 (17/100), 55971 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 55974, 55943, 55947 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.

The Houston County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.