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

Nelson County, North Dakota is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county's ZIP scores run from 5 up to 13/100. 10 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 6/100 distress. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 56/100 (moderate).

Currently peak, Nelson County saw prices rise 4.2% year over year, a 44/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +4.2% YoY (44/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A moderate 56/100 lender headwind means both signal sets in play here.

Leading Nelson County on distress: 58266 (13/100), 58212 (7/100), 58224 (5/100), 58254 (5/100), 58259 (5/100), 58272 (5/100). Also scored across the county: 58321, 58344, 58361, 58380.

By the numbers, the Nelson County ZIPs on file run household income averaging about $79,294, roughly at the national median, a median age of 48.2, a 5.8% poverty rate, a 27.2% vacancy rate, 79% of homes owner-occupied, home values averaging roughly $162,157, below the US. These fundamentals set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 6/100 over 10 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Nelson County property carries owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Whether Nelson County, North Dakota 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 Nelson County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Treat Nelson County, North Dakota as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. Every Nelson County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Nelson County are 58266 (13/100), 58212 (7/100), 58224 (5/100), 58254 (5/100), 58259 (5/100), 58272 (5/100). DLRadar also scores 58321, 58344, 58361, 58380 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.

The Nelson County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.