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

Hand County, South Dakota sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 36/100 (moderate). ZIP-level distress ranges from 18/100 at the top down to 10/100. DLRadar scores 8 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 13/100.

Currently peak, Hand County saw prices rise 2.2% year over year (phase confidence 28/100). On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.2% YoY (28/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 36/100 implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

By composite, 57381 (18/100), 57469 (14/100), 57476 (14/100), 57362 (12/100), 57371 (12/100), 57373 (12/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Hand County ZIPs include 57467, 57470.

On the housing-and-income side, the Hand County ZIPs on file show a 23.4% vacancy rate, home values averaging roughly $163,400, below the US, a 15.9% poverty rate, 74% of homes owner-occupied, a median household income near $67,400 (below the US norm), residents with a median age around 40.5. Read together, they frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Net of it all, 13/100 over 8 ZIPs means Hand County is a screen-by-ZIP market for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Hand County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

The distress read for Hand County, South Dakota is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Hand County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Approach Hand County by rank rather than by average — the 13/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. All Hand County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

The ZIP breakdown for Hand County leads with 57381 (18/100), 57469 (14/100), 57476 (14/100), 57362 (12/100), 57371 (12/100), 57373 (12/100). DLRadar also scores 57467, 57470 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Hand 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.