Otter Tail County, MN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

DLRadar tracks property distress across Otter Tail County, Minnesota using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county's ZIP scores run from 1 up to 19/100. 34 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 16/100 distress. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 61/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally.

Currently peak, Otter Tail County saw prices rise 2.7% year over year, a 18/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (18/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. Bank stress at 61/100 signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Highest scores land in 56324 (19/100), 56361 (19/100), 56515 (19/100), 56518 (19/100), 56524 (19/100), 56527 (19/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Other tracked Otter Tail County ZIPs include 56528, 56533, 56534, 56537, 56551, 56567, 56571, 56572, 56573, 56576.

Profile-wise, Otter Tail County's scored ZIPs run a 26.9% vacancy rate, poverty running near 8.8%, residents with a median age around 45.1, 84% owner-occupancy, incomes around $69,903, typical home values near $250,994. Numbers like these set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

All in at 16/100 over 34 ZIPs, Otter Tail County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Otter Tail County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Otter Tail 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 Otter Tail County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The way to work Otter Tail County, Minnesota is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 19/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Otter Tail County with undifferentiated outreach. The Otter Tail County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Otter Tail County are 56324 (19/100), 56361 (19/100), 56515 (19/100), 56518 (19/100), 56524 (19/100), 56527 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 56528, 56533, 56534, 56537, 56551, 56567, 56571, 56572 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Otter Tail County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.