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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Day County, South Dakota using verifiable public-record signals alone. ZIP-level distress ranges from 15/100 at the top down to 10/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 25/100 (contained). DLRadar scores 11 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 13/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.2% over the past year, at 28/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

Day County's topped-out +2.2% YoY (28/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A contained 25/100 bank headwind points the search to owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

Leading Day County on distress: 57434 (15/100), 57235 (14/100), 57422 (14/100), 57219 (13/100), 57239 (13/100), 57261 (13/100). Coverage extends to 57273, 57468, 57274, 57256, 57454 among others.

On the housing-and-income side, Day County's tracked footprint run median home values around $190,556 (below the national figure), 82% owner-occupancy, incomes around $66,863, a 9.1% poverty rate, a median age of 47.9, vacancy near 25.9%. These fundamentals frame where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

Day County, South Dakota's 13/100 average over 11 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Day County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Day County, South Dakota's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. Nothing in the Day County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

Drilling in, Day County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 57434 (15/100), 57235 (14/100), 57422 (14/100), 57219 (13/100), 57239 (13/100), 57261 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 57273, 57468, 57274, 57256, 57454 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Day 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.