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

Chouteau County, Montana is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 13/100 composite distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 8 to 17 out of 100. On bank and credit headwind, Chouteau County scores 35/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.2% over the past year, at 21/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.2% YoY (21/100 confidence), selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 35/100 lender headwind points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Chouteau County are 59540 (17/100), 59521 (15/100), 59405 (14/100), 59404 (13/100), 59420 (13/100), 59442 (13/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Other tracked Chouteau County ZIPs include 59446, 59450, 59460, 59520, 59416, 59440, 59447.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Chouteau County show typical home values near $201,515, residents with a median age around 41.3, 69% owner-occupancy, a 19.8% vacancy rate, incomes around $67,968, poverty running near 10.2%. Numbers like these set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 13/100 over 13 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Unlock Chouteau County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

Treat Chouteau County, Montana as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. All Chouteau County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Chouteau County are 59540 (17/100), 59521 (15/100), 59405 (14/100), 59404 (13/100), 59420 (13/100), 59442 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 59446, 59450, 59460, 59520, 59416, 59440, 59447 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 Chouteau 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.