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

Every ZIP in Hamlin County, South Dakota carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county's ZIP scores run from 5 up to 15/100. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 8/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Hamlin County scores 56/100.

In its peak phase, Hamlin County home prices rose 2.2% across the last year, a 28/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.2% YoY (28/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 56/100 points to both signal sets in play here.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 57212 (15/100), ZIP 57201 (14/100), ZIP 57243 (12/100), ZIP 57234 (9/100), ZIP 57226 (7/100), ZIP 57221 (6/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 57223, 57238, 57241, 57242, 57248, 57271 and more.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Hamlin County show a median household income near $69,683 (near the US norm), 17.9% of units sitting vacant, poverty running near 8.3%, an owner-occupied share of 81%, home values averaging roughly $214,017, below the US, residents with a median age around 37. Numbers like these frame both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Hamlin County, South Dakota's 8/100 average over 12 ZIPs says Hamlin County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Hamlin County parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Hamlin County, South Dakota carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Hamlin County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For anyone buying in Hamlin County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 15/100. The Hamlin County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Hamlin County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 57212 (15/100), 57201 (14/100), 57243 (12/100), 57234 (9/100), 57226 (7/100), 57221 (6/100). DLRadar also scores 57223, 57238, 57241, 57242, 57248, 57271 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 Hamlin 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.