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

Wells County, North Dakota sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. DLRadar scores 12 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 8/100. On bank and credit headwind, Wells County scores 49/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 5 up to 13/100.

Currently peak, Wells County saw prices rise 4.2% year over year, at 44/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.

At +4.2% YoY and 44/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 49/100 points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Wells County are 58348 (13/100), 58374 (13/100), 58421 (12/100), 58758 (10/100), 58486 (7/100), 58418 (6/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 58422, 58423, 58438, 58451, 58341, 58356.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Wells County show home values averaging roughly $125,608, below the US, a 20.9% vacancy rate, 82% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $70,263 (near the US norm), a median age of 44.4, poverty running near 9.5%. Read together, they shape where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

Wells County, North Dakota's 8/100 average over 12 ZIPs says the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Wells County property carries owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

No county is too small to score: Wells County, North Dakota runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Wells County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in North Dakota.

Read Wells County, North Dakota as a heat map for effort — the county's minimal composite of 8/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Wells County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

The ZIP breakdown for Wells County leads with 58348 (13/100), 58374 (13/100), 58421 (12/100), 58758 (10/100), 58486 (7/100), 58418 (6/100). DLRadar also scores 58422, 58423, 58438, 58451, 58341, 58356 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Wells 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.