Emmons County, ND: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Emmons County, North Dakota sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. On bank and credit headwind, Emmons County scores 62/100, a stressed reading. ZIP-level distress ranges from 19/100 at the top down to 10/100. The county spans 8 scored ZIP codes, averaging 14/100 composite distress.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 4.2% over the past year (phase confidence 44/100). At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Emmons County flat at +4.2% YoY (44/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Its 62/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Top distress by ZIP runs 58560 (19/100), 58524 (15/100), 58542 (15/100), 58544 (15/100), 58552 (15/100), 58573 (15/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Also scored across the county: 58549, 57648.

On the housing-and-income side, the Emmons County ZIPs on file run vacancy near 30.6%, residents with a median age around 46.4, 7.8% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 86%, incomes around $67,323, home values averaging roughly $153,114, below the US. These fundamentals shape the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 14/100 composite over 8 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Emmons County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

The distress read for Emmons County, North Dakota is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Emmons County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Scores in Emmons County, North Dakota exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Emmons County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Emmons County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 58560 (19/100), 58524 (15/100), 58542 (15/100), 58544 (15/100), 58552 (15/100), 58573 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 58549, 57648 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 Emmons 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.