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

Sargent County, North Dakota is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. 12 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 10/100 distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 3 up to 11/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 69/100 (elevated).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 4.2% over twelve months, at 44/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +4.2% YoY and 44/100 confidence, the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Bank stress at 69/100 signals what's coming: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Leading Sargent County on distress: 58053 (11/100), 58060 (11/100), 58081 (11/100), 57430 (10/100), 58013 (10/100), 58017 (10/100). Other tracked Sargent County ZIPs include 58032, 58040, 58043, 58067, 58069, 58474.

On the housing-and-income side, Sargent County's scored ZIPs report 8% of households below the poverty line, 79% of homes owner-occupied, home values averaging roughly $149,030, below the US, residents with a median age around 45.9, a median household income near $70,945 (near the US norm), vacancy near 16.1%. Income, equity and tenure like these signal who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

With a minimal 10/100 reading over 12 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Sargent County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Sargent 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 Sargent County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Approach Sargent County by rank rather than by average — the 10/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Every Sargent 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 Sargent County are 58053 (11/100), 58060 (11/100), 58081 (11/100), 57430 (10/100), 58013 (10/100), 58017 (10/100). DLRadar also scores 58032, 58040, 58043, 58067, 58069, 58474 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.

DLRadar's composite for Sargent 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.