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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Steele County, North Dakota using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county's ZIP scores run from 7 up to 25/100. DLRadar scores 12 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 17/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 50/100 (moderate).

In its peak phase, Steele County home prices rose 4.2% across the last year, at 44/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, 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 — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A moderate 50/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 58064 (25/100), ZIP 58035 (19/100), ZIP 58056 (19/100), ZIP 58016 (18/100), ZIP 58274 (18/100), ZIP 58230 (17/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 58277, 58425, 58046, 58267, 58240, 58212.

On the housing-and-income side, Steele County's scored ZIPs show a median household income near $82,162 (near the US norm), vacancy near 24.3%, poverty running near 9%, typical home values near $185,858, residents with a median age around 48.5, an owner-occupied share of 80%. Income, equity and tenure like these set up who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

At 17/100 composite over 12 ZIPs, Steele County is a screen-by-ZIP market for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Steele County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

The practical read on Steele County, North Dakota is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. Provenance for Steele County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Steele County are 58064 (25/100), 58035 (19/100), 58056 (19/100), 58016 (18/100), 58274 (18/100), 58230 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 58277, 58425, 58046, 58267, 58240, 58212 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 Steele 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.