South Dakota Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

South Dakota sits in DLRadar's nationwide distress index, scored entirely from deterministic public records. Statewide, counties skew peak, prices up 2.0% on average. 66 counties and 375 ZIPs are tracked statewide, averaging 14/100. Phase-wise, South Dakota counties run 65 peak, 1 contraction.

The sharpest county readings come from Buffalo County, Jackson County, Oglala Lakota County, Sully County, Bennett County.

By ZIP, South Dakota distress peaks in 57003 (31/100), 57005 (31/100), 57020 (31/100), 57033 (31/100), 57041 (31/100).

The South Dakota breakdown, county by county:

Aurora County is peak (homes +2.2% YoY). In Beadle County, peak: prices up 1.7%. Bennett County is in its peak phase, up 2.2% on the year, lender pressure 91/100. Bon Homme County: peak, up 2.2% on the year, bank stress 52/100. Brookings County is peak (homes +1.7% YoY, bank stress 55/100). Brown County is peak (homes +1.7% YoY, headwind 35/100). Brule County is peak (up 2.2% on the year, lender pressure 46/100).

Buffalo County is peak (homes +2.2% YoY, a 100/100 lender reading). Butte County sits in peak, homes +2.2% YoY. In Campbell County, peak: values rising 2.2%. Charles Mix County sits in peak, homes +2.2% YoY, lender pressure 42/100. Clark County sits in peak, prices up 2.2%, headwind 74/100. Clay County is in its peak phase, homes +1.7% YoY, bank stress 39/100. Codington County reads peak — up 1.7% on the year, a 48/100 lender reading.

Corson County: peak, up 2.2% on the year. Custer County is in its peak phase, up 1.2% on the year, bank stress 44/100. Davison County is in its peak phase, prices up 1.7%, lender pressure 78/100. Day County: peak, up 2.2% on the year, headwind 25/100. DLRadar reads Deuel County as peak — appreciation near 2.2%, headwind 71/100. Dewey County is peak (values rising 2.2%, a 56/100 lender reading). Douglas County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 2.2%, headwind 81/100.

Edmunds County: peak, prices up 1.7%. Fall River County is peak (appreciation near 2.2%, bank stress 40/100). Faulk County — peak, prices up 2.2%, headwind 74/100. Grant County — peak, values rising 2.2%, headwind 50/100. DLRadar reads Gregory County as peak — values rising 2.2%, bank stress 63/100. DLRadar reads Haakon County as peak — up 2.2% on the year. DLRadar reads Hamlin County as peak — prices up 2.2%, a 56/100 lender reading.

Hand County reads peak — up 2.2% on the year, bank stress 36/100. Hanson County: peak, appreciation near 1.7%, headwind 75/100. In Harding County, peak: up 2.2% on the year, lender pressure 50/100. Hughes County reads peak — homes +1.7% YoY, a 46/100 lender reading. Hutchinson County is in its peak phase, up 2.2% on the year, bank stress 60/100. Hyde County — peak, up 2.2% on the year. Jackson County: peak, values rising 2.2%, headwind 100/100.

Jerauld County: peak, appreciation near 2.2%, bank stress 47/100. Jones County: peak, homes +2.2% YoY. Kingsbury County is in its peak phase, up 2.2% on the year, headwind 16/100. Lake County: peak, homes +2.2% YoY, bank stress 35/100. Lawrence County: peak, up 1.7% on the year, a 37/100 lender reading. Lincoln County sits in peak, up 2.5% on the year, lender pressure 57/100. Lyman County — peak, appreciation near 2.2%, headwind 69/100.

Marshall County is peak (up 2.2% on the year). Mccook County reads peak — values rising 2.5%, a 42/100 lender reading. Mcpherson County reads peak — up 2.2% on the year. Meade County is in its peak phase, prices up 1.2%. Mellette County sits in peak, appreciation near 2.2%, headwind 47/100. Miner County reads peak — values rising 2.2%, headwind 50/100. In Minnehaha County, peak: homes +2.5% YoY, bank stress 60/100.

Moody County — peak, appreciation near 2.2%, lender pressure 26/100.

Behind every South Dakota number is a public record: foreclosure, tax, mortgage, lien, bank and climate signals, each traceable and rolled up from parcel to ZIP to county. Since South Dakota runs peak overall, the edge is in the divergence — the counties and ZIPs that don't match the headline.

Browse South Dakota by county below, or drill straight to a ZIP report. A DLRadar subscription unlocks every distressed South Dakota property: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score, lender exposure and exit-velocity read.

Whether South Dakota runs hot or quiet on distress, the whole state runs through one nationwide scoring engine — court and recorder filings, FHFA price data and FDIC lender stress — so a South Dakota county can be weighed against any market in the country on equal footing. Nothing is interpolated: where a South Dakota source is thin, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, so the read reflects the documents, not an estimate.

County by county, the markets DLRadar flags first are Buffalo County, Jackson County, Oglala Lakota County, Sully County, Bennett County , and at ZIP level 57003 (31/100), 57005 (31/100), 57020 (31/100), 57033 (31/100), 57041 (31/100) score highest.

Under every South Dakota score sit several layers — foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress signals scored separately into one 0–100 reading per market.

For a buyer, the workflow in South Dakota is the same regardless of the state's size: open the top-ranked county, follow it down to the hottest ZIPs, and finish at the specific parcels driving the distress , then the platform takes it from signal to closed acquisition.

Since every input is public and rules-based, a South Dakota score can be traced back to the exact filings behind it — foreclosure dockets, tax rolls, recorded liens, FHFA price series and FDIC call reports — so nothing about the South Dakota read is a black box.