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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Wheatland County, Montana using verifiable public-record signals alone. ZIP-level distress ranges from 20/100 at the top down to 2/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 58/100. 6 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 10/100 distress.

In its peak phase, Wheatland County home prices rose 2.2% across the last year (phase confidence 21/100). This late in the run, broad sweeps stop paying — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +2.2% YoY (21/100 confidence), the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 58/100 lender reading implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Top distress by ZIP runs 59453 (20/100), 59074 (11/100), 59036 (10/100), 59085 (10/100), 59078 (7/100), 59053 (2/100), listed with every scored ZIP below.

On the housing-and-income side, the Wheatland County ZIPs on file run 83% of homes owner-occupied, a median household income near $49,976 (below the US norm), 34.6% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 50.6, typical home values near $153,200, poverty running near 29%. These fundamentals set up the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Wheatland County, Montana's 10/100 average over 6 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Wheatland County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Because Wheatland County, Montana is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Wheatland County against neighboring markets or the rest of Montana on equal footing.

The practical read on Wheatland County, Montana is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. All Wheatland County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

The ZIP breakdown for Wheatland County leads with 59453 (20/100), 59074 (11/100), 59036 (10/100), 59085 (10/100), 59078 (7/100), 59053 (2/100). 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 Wheatland 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.