Brown County, SD: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Brown County, SD, South Dakota: 20 ZIP codes scored, Brown County, SD averaging 18/100 (low, Brown, SD), from 3 to 22. Brown County, SD is in its peak phase (Brown, SD confidence 20/100): Brown, SD home prices up 1.7% (Brown, SD) over twelve months. Brown County, SD lender headwind: 35/100.

Highest-scoring Brown County, SD ZIPs: 57401 (22/100), 57426 (22/100), 57427 (22/100), 57433 (22/100), 57439 (22/100), 57441 (22/100). Also scored in Brown County, SD: 57445, 57446, 57449, 57479, 57432, 57474, 57422, 57460, 57481, 57434.

Across Brown County, SD's scored ZIPs: median home value $194,985, household income $71,718, 21.0% vacancy, 6.7% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 45.2.

Brown County, SD insurance distress 0/100 (#3,025 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Brown, SD; Brown, SD construction distress 99/100.

12 banks with 16 branches lend in Brown County, SD; Brown, SD weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 87/100 in Brown, SD.

Brown County, SD unemployment 2.0% (Brown, SD -0.5 pts, six months); 67 new housing units permitted in Brown County, SD over twelve months, Brown, SD down 61% from 172; Brown, SD home prices +7.4% a year (Brown, SD) over three years.

18,090 housing units in Brown County, SD; 5,611 Brown, SD renter households; 38% of Brown, SD renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Brown, SD) half or more.

Brown County, SD ranks #922 nationally on the opportunity index (Brown, SD, among all ranked counties); Brown, SD scores 31.5/100 and Brown, SD sits #9 inside South Dakota. Brown, SD is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Brown, SD's primary driver is construction, Brown, SD second driver bank institutional; Brown, SD moved up 277 places. 30 short-sale listings across Brown, SD; 13 days on market observed in Brown, SD; 8.8% vacancy over 20 Brown, SD ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Brown County, SD. The state reading for Brown, SD: 0.6% ninety-plus days late; Brown, SD's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.0% (Brown, SD, December 2025 data).

Brown County, SD has 8 watched banks; 8 Brown, SD banks sit in an elevated band. Brown, SD footprints: Dacotah Bank (3 branches, stress 70) in Brown, SD; Cortrust Bank National Assn (1 branch, stress 87) in Brown, SD; First Nb Of Frederick (1 branch, stress 81) in Brown, SD.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Brown County, SD with 24 units.

1,805 of the 18,090 housing units in Brown, SD sit vacant. Brown County, SD permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Brown, SD's one-to-four unit structures added 67 units in Brown County, SD.