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

Every ZIP in Pope County, Minnesota carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 3 to 16 out of 100. On bank and credit headwind, Pope County scores 20/100. Coverage runs to 12 ZIPs across Pope County, a minimal 10/100 average.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.4% over the past year (phase confidence 28/100). With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.

At +3.4% YoY and 28/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Lender stress at 20/100 (contained) favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.

The sharpest Pope County readings come from 56316 (16/100), 56308 (15/100), 56327 (13/100), 56343 (13/100), 56385 (13/100), 56349 (11/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 56334, 56381, 56226, 56323, 56215, 56244 among others.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Pope County show home values averaging roughly $247,075, below the US, vacancy near 19.2%, 84% owner-occupancy, poverty running near 7.9%, residents with a median age around 45, incomes around $73,755. Numbers like these shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 10/100 over 12 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Pope County property carries owner, address and APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

Read Pope County, Minnesota as a heat map for effort — the county's minimal composite of 10/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. Nothing in the Pope County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Pope County are 56316 (16/100), 56308 (15/100), 56327 (13/100), 56343 (13/100), 56385 (13/100), 56349 (11/100). DLRadar also scores 56334, 56381, 56226, 56323, 56215, 56244 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.

The Pope 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.