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

Jefferson County, Montana is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. On bank and credit headwind, Jefferson County scores 82/100, a stressed reading. 9 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 13/100 distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 17/100 at the top down to 10/100.

Currently contraction, Jefferson County saw prices fall 2.8% year over year, sitting 2.8% below its cycle peak (phase confidence 71/100). While the market slides, seller motivation builds and distressed-to-retail spreads widen.

Given Jefferson County's -2.8% YoY cooling (71/100 confidence), patience pays here as motivated sellers multiply. An elevated 82/100 reading favors patient capital: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Highest scores land in 59752 (17/100), 59631 (13/100), 59632 (13/100), 59634 (13/100), 59638 (13/100), 59721 (13/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Other tracked Jefferson County ZIPs include 59635, 59759, 59701.

Demographically, the Jefferson County ZIPs on file report a 7.2% poverty rate, vacancy near 10%, a median household income near $67,296 (below the US norm), 82% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 47.2, median home values around $414,688 (above the national figure). These fundamentals drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

At 13/100 composite over 9 ZIPs, Jefferson County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Unlock Jefferson County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

In Jefferson County, Montana, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. The Jefferson County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Jefferson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 59752 (17/100), 59631 (13/100), 59632 (13/100), 59634 (13/100), 59638 (13/100), 59721 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 59635, 59759, 59701 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Jefferson 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.