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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Rice County, Minnesota using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county spans 16 scored ZIP codes, averaging 25/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Rice County scores 69/100, a stressed reading. Individual Rice County ZIPs score between 15 and 29 on the 0–100 composite.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.7% over the past year (phase confidence 18/100). This late in the run, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (18/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. Bank stress at 69/100 is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Leading Rice County on distress: 55019 (29/100), 55021 (29/100), 55046 (29/100), 55087 (29/100), 55088 (28/100), 55052 (27/100). Coverage extends to 55053, 56052, 56069, 55057, 56071, 56096, 55018, 55946, 55049, 56093 among others.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Rice County come in at typical home values near $321,388, a median age of 41.7, 8% of units sitting vacant, incomes around $87,014, 86% owner-occupancy, a 6.2% poverty rate. Taken together, they signal the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

At 25/100 composite over 16 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Rice County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

For anyone buying in Rice County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 29/100. What supports the Rice County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Rice County leads with 55019 (29/100), 55021 (29/100), 55046 (29/100), 55087 (29/100), 55088 (28/100), 55052 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 55053, 56052, 56069, 55057, 56071, 56096, 55018, 55946 and more 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 Rice 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.