Carter County, MT: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Carter County, MT, Montana: 10 ZIP codes scored, Carter County, MT averaging 3/100 (minimal, Carter, MT), from 1 to 14. Carter County, MT is in its peak phase (Carter, MT confidence 21/100): Carter, MT home prices up 2.2% (Carter, MT) over twelve months. Carter County, MT lender headwind: 100/100.

Highest-scoring Carter County, MT ZIPs: 59336 (14/100), 57717 (4/100), 57724 (2/100), 59311 (1/100), 59313 (1/100), 59316 (1/100). Also scored in Carter County, MT: 59319, 59324, 59332, 59344.

Across Carter County, MT's scored ZIPs: median home value $247,540, household income $69,798, 25.5% vacancy, 8.5% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 51.1.

Carter County, MT insurance distress 0/100 (#2,828 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Carter, MT; Carter, MT construction distress 2/100.

1 bank with 1 branch lend in Carter County, MT; Carter, MT weighted bank stress 100/100.

Carter County, MT unemployment 1.4% (Carter, MT -0.8 pts, six months); 2 new housing units permitted in Carter County, MT over twelve months, Carter, MT up 100% from 1.

829 housing units in Carter County, MT; 230 Carter, MT renter households; 23% of Carter, MT renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 8% (Carter, MT) half or more.

Carter County, MT ranks #2,560 nationally on the opportunity index (Carter, MT, among all ranked counties); Carter, MT scores 25.6/100 and Carter, MT sits #47 inside Montana. Carter, MT is in the weak opportunity phase; Carter, MT's primary driver is vacancy, Carter, MT second driver bank institutional; Carter, MT moved down 530 places. 6 short-sale listings across Carter, MT; 69 days on market observed in Carter, MT; 19.3% vacancy over 10 Carter, MT ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Carter County, MT. The non-metro area reading for Carter, MT: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Carter, MT's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.0% (Carter, MT, December 2025 data); Montana overall 0.6%.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Carter County, MT with 12 units.

229 of the 829 housing units in Carter, MT sit vacant. Carter County, MT permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Carter, MT's one-to-four unit structures added 2 units in Carter County, MT.