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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Custer County, Montana using verifiable public-record signals alone. 7 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 13/100 distress. Lender pressure in Custer County registers 30/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind. The county's ZIP scores run from 6 up to 16/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.2% over the past year, a 21/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Custer County flat at +2.2% YoY (21/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A contained 30/100 bank headwind points the search to owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

Leading Custer County on distress: 59301 (16/100), 59338 (16/100), 59336 (15/100), 59345 (15/100), 59351 (13/100), 59349 (11/100). Other tracked Custer County ZIPs include 59347.

Demographically, Custer County's scored ZIPs report home values averaging roughly $202,414, below the US, residents with a median age around 52.6, an owner-occupied share of 83%, a 13.2% poverty rate, vacancy near 19.6%, incomes around $62,898. Read together, they drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 13/100 over 7 ZIPs, Custer County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Custer County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Custer County, Montana 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 Custer County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Used properly, Custer County, Montana's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Custer County as a whole. Provenance for Custer County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Custer County leads with 59301 (16/100), 59338 (16/100), 59336 (15/100), 59345 (15/100), 59351 (13/100), 59349 (11/100). DLRadar also scores 59347 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.

Under Custer 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.