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

For Lyon County, Minnesota, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Lender pressure in Lyon County registers 59/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. The county's ZIP scores run from 10 up to 22/100. DLRadar scores 14 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 19/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.7% over twelve months, at 18/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (18/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A mid-cycle 59/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Lyon County are 56157 (22/100), 56169 (22/100), 56239 (22/100), 56258 (22/100), 56115 (21/100), 56132 (21/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 56175, 56229, 56263, 56264, 56170, 56291, 56178, 56113 among others.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Lyon County report a 9.3% poverty rate, 13.2% of units sitting vacant, a median household income near $73,613 (near the US norm), typical home values near $181,200, residents with a median age around 42.5, an owner-occupied share of 85%. Numbers like these frame the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

With a low 19/100 reading over 14 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lyon County parcel: owner, APN and address, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Whether Lyon County, Minnesota carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Lyon County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Lyon County, Minnesota's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Lyon County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Lyon County leads with 56157 (22/100), 56169 (22/100), 56239 (22/100), 56258 (22/100), 56115 (21/100), 56132 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 56175, 56229, 56263, 56264, 56170, 56291, 56178, 56113 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 Lyon 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.