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

Dewey County, South Dakota is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Individual Dewey County ZIPs score between 5 and 21 on the 0–100 composite. There are 10 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 18/100). On bank and credit headwind, Dewey County scores 56/100.

Currently peak, Dewey County saw prices rise 2.2% year over year, at 28/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, the opportunity narrows so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Dewey County flat at +2.2% YoY (28/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 56/100 means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Leading Dewey County on distress: 57630 (21/100), 57636 (21/100), 57652 (21/100), 57661 (21/100), 57601 (20/100), 57625 (19/100). The breakdown continues through 57656, 57633, 57657, 57442 and more.

Demographically, the Dewey County ZIPs on file report household income averaging about $58,714, below the national median, an owner-occupied share of 70%, 21.7% of households below the poverty line, residents with a median age around 37, vacancy near 15.2%, typical home values near $97,057. Numbers like these shape the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Net of it all, 18/100 over 10 ZIPs means Dewey County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Dewey County parcel: owner, address and APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

For anyone buying in Dewey County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 21/100. The Dewey County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Dewey County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 57630 (21/100), 57636 (21/100), 57652 (21/100), 57661 (21/100), 57601 (20/100), 57625 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 57656, 57633, 57657, 57442 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 Dewey 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.