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

Across Yellowstone County, Montana, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Coverage runs to 16 ZIPs across Yellowstone County, a low 18/100 average. Lender pressure in Yellowstone County registers 29/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind. ZIP-level distress ranges from 20/100 at the top down to 13/100.

In its expansion phase, Yellowstone County home prices rose 5.0% across the last year, sitting 1.4% below its cycle peak (phase confidence 56/100). While the county appreciates, pockets of distress persist which the scoring still flags.

Through Yellowstone County's +5.0% YoY climb (56/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain so buy those and momentum helps on exit. Lender stress at 29/100 (contained) points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The sharpest Yellowstone County readings come from 59002 (20/100), 59006 (20/100), 59079 (20/100), 59088 (20/100), 59102 (20/100), 59105 (20/100) — open any for the parcel detail. The breakdown continues through 59106, 59024, 59037, 59044, 59101, 59064, 59015, 59041, 59063, 59057 and more.

Underneath the scores, the Yellowstone County ZIPs on file run home values averaging roughly $344,025, in line with the US, household income averaging about $77,379, roughly at the national median, a median age of 42.9, a 12.3% poverty rate, an owner-occupied share of 77%, 11.5% of units sitting vacant. Read together, they signal the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 18/100 over 16 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Yellowstone County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

The way to work Yellowstone County, Montana is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 20/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Yellowstone County with undifferentiated outreach. The Yellowstone County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Yellowstone County are 59002 (20/100), 59006 (20/100), 59079 (20/100), 59088 (20/100), 59102 (20/100), 59105 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 59106, 59024, 59037, 59044, 59101, 59064, 59015, 59041 and more 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 Yellowstone 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.