Custer County, NE: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Custer County, Nebraska sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Individual Custer County ZIPs score between 2 and 26 on the 0–100 composite. DLRadar scores 21 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 9/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 20/100 (contained).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.3% over twelve months, a 24/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +3.3% YoY (24/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A steady 20/100 bank reading puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

By composite, 69130 (26/100), 68878 (24/100), 68834 (23/100), 68858 (19/100), 68866 (19/100), 69138 (15/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Custer County ZIPs include 68860, 69120, 68814, 68815, 68822, 68825, 68828, 68855, 68856, 68874.

Demographically, the Custer County ZIPs on file run a 7.2% poverty rate, 77% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $69,670 (near the US norm), vacancy near 19.5%, home values averaging roughly $161,905, below the US, a median age of 46.4. Numbers like these drive who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

All in at 9/100 over 21 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Unlock Custer County to see every parcel's owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Because Custer County, Nebraska is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Custer County against neighboring markets or the rest of Nebraska on equal footing.

Read Custer County, Nebraska as a heat map for effort — the county's minimal composite of 9/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. All Custer County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Custer County are 69130 (26/100), 68878 (24/100), 68834 (23/100), 68858 (19/100), 68866 (19/100), 69138 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 68860, 69120, 68814, 68815, 68822, 68825, 68828, 68855 and more 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 Custer 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.