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

Every ZIP in Meade County, South Dakota carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. 19 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 17/100 distress. On bank and credit headwind, Meade County scores 6/100. Individual Meade County ZIPs score between 8 and 21 on the 0–100 composite.

In its peak phase, Meade County home prices rose 1.2% across the last year, a 25/100-confidence read. This late in the run, blanket buying underperforms — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Meade County's topped-out +1.2% YoY (25/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. A low 6/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

Top distress by ZIP runs 57702 (21/100), 57701 (20/100), 57761 (19/100), 57767 (19/100), 57791 (19/100), 57706 (18/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. The breakdown continues through 57718, 57719, 57737, 57741, 57769, 57787, 57792, 57785, 57748, 57793 and more.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Meade County come in at home values averaging roughly $257,200, below the US, 71% owner-occupancy, a median age of 44, vacancy near 15.3%, 11% of households below the poverty line, a median household income near $69,410 (near the US norm). Income, equity and tenure like these drive how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 17/100 over 19 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Unlock Meade County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

Approach Meade County by rank rather than by average — the 17/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Meade County data is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Meade County are 57702 (21/100), 57701 (20/100), 57761 (19/100), 57767 (19/100), 57791 (19/100), 57706 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 57718, 57719, 57737, 57741, 57769, 57787, 57792, 57785 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

The Meade County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.