Hughes County, SD: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Hughes County, SD, South Dakota: 3 ZIP codes scored, Hughes County, SD averaging 6/100 (minimal, Hughes, SD), from 6 to 7. Hughes County, SD is in its peak phase (Hughes, SD confidence 20/100): Hughes, SD home prices up 1.7% (Hughes, SD) over twelve months. Hughes County, SD lender headwind: 46/100.
Highest-scoring Hughes County, SD ZIPs: 57536 (7/100), 57501 (6/100), 57522 (6/100).
Across Hughes County, SD's scored ZIPs: median home value $183,367, household income $78,920, 20.0% vacancy, 6.2% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 40.1.
Hughes County, SD insurance distress 21/100 (#2,248 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Hughes, SD; 2 federal disaster declarations in Hughes County, SD since 2023.
5 banks with 10 branches lend in Hughes County, SD; Hughes, SD weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 83/100 in Hughes, SD.
Hughes County, SD unemployment 1.7% (Hughes, SD -0.7 pts, six months); 119 new housing units permitted in Hughes County, SD over twelve months, Hughes, SD up 297% from 30; Hughes, SD home prices +8.0% a year (Hughes, SD) over three years.
7,997 housing units in Hughes County, SD; 1,816 Hughes, SD renter households; 35% of Hughes, SD renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 8% (Hughes, SD) half or more.
Hughes County, SD ranks #2,205 nationally on the opportunity index (Hughes, SD, among all ranked counties); Hughes, SD scores 27.0/100 and Hughes, SD sits #45 inside South Dakota. Hughes, SD is in the weak opportunity phase; Hughes, SD's primary driver is bank institutional, Hughes, SD second driver vacancy; Hughes, SD moved up 634 places. 4 short-sale listings across Hughes, SD; 65 days on market observed in Hughes, SD; 9.2% vacancy over 3 Hughes, SD ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Hughes County, SD. The state reading for Hughes, SD: 0.6% ninety-plus days late; Hughes, SD's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.0% (Hughes, SD, December 2025 data).
Hughes County, SD has 5 watched banks; 5 Hughes, SD banks sit in an elevated band. Hughes, SD footprints: Bankwest Inc (5 branches, stress 83) in Hughes, SD; First National Bank (2 branches, stress 1) in Hughes, SD; Wells Fargo Bank Na (1 branch, stress 67) in Hughes, SD.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Hughes County, SD with 12 units; 12 Hughes, SD units are assisted, 1 Hughes, SD properties under project-based Section 8.
744 of the 7,997 housing units in Hughes, SD sit vacant. Hughes County, SD permitted 101 multifamily units in twelve months; Hughes, SD's one-to-four unit structures added 18 units in Hughes County, SD.