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

Every ZIP in Ransom County, North Dakota carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 40 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. The county spans 11 scored ZIP codes, averaging 13/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 4 up to 21/100.

In its peak phase, Ransom County home prices rose 4.2% across the last year, a 44/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

Ransom County's topped-out +4.2% YoY (44/100 confidence) means opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 40/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 58052 (21/100), ZIP 58027 (20/100), ZIP 58049 (15/100), ZIP 58062 (15/100), ZIP 58068 (13/100), ZIP 58033 (12/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Also scored across the county: 58054, 58057, 58060, 58069, 58490.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Ransom County report 13.8% of units sitting vacant, 86% owner-occupancy, poverty running near 9.4%, residents with a median age around 48, a median household income near $77,706 (near the US norm), median home values around $169,245 (below the national figure). Income, equity and tenure like these drive the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

At 13/100 composite over 11 ZIPs, Ransom County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Ransom County parcel's owner, APN and address, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

Ransom County, North Dakota is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Ransom County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Ransom County data is thin.

Drilling in, Ransom County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 58052 (21/100), 58027 (20/100), 58049 (15/100), 58062 (15/100), 58068 (13/100), 58033 (12/100). DLRadar also scores 58054, 58057, 58060, 58069, 58490 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.

The Ransom 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.