Mellette County, SD: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Mellette County, SD, South Dakota: 7 ZIP codes scored, Mellette County, SD averaging 12/100 (minimal, Mellette, SD), from 9 to 14. Mellette County, SD is in its peak phase (Mellette, SD confidence 28/100): Mellette, SD home prices up 2.2% (Mellette, SD) over twelve months. Mellette County, SD lender headwind: 47/100.
Highest-scoring Mellette County, SD ZIPs: 57521 (14/100), 57566 (14/100), 57560 (13/100), 57559 (11/100), 57579 (11/100), 57585 (11/100). Also scored in Mellette County, SD: 57580.
Across Mellette County, SD's scored ZIPs: median home value $149,740, household income $57,159, 24.4% vacancy, 37.4% poverty, 57% owner-occupied, median age 33.7.
Mellette County, SD insurance distress 0/100 (#3,046 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Mellette, SD; Mellette, SD construction distress 99/100.
1 bank with 1 branch lend in Mellette County, SD; Mellette, SD weighted bank stress 61/100.
Mellette County, SD unemployment 6.2% (Mellette, SD +2.0 pts, six months).
779 housing units in Mellette County, SD; 247 Mellette, SD renter households; 17% of Mellette, SD renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 11% (Mellette, SD) half or more.
Mellette County, SD ranks #1,759 nationally on the opportunity index (Mellette, SD, among all ranked counties); Mellette, SD scores 28.6/100 and Mellette, SD sits #26 inside South Dakota. Mellette, SD is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Mellette, SD's primary driver is vacancy, Mellette, SD second driver construction; Mellette, SD moved down 1,313 places. 2 short-sale listings across Mellette, SD; 9 days on market observed in Mellette, SD; 20.2% vacancy over 7 Mellette, SD ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Mellette County, SD. The state reading for Mellette, SD: 0.6% ninety-plus days late; Mellette, SD's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.0% (Mellette, SD, December 2025 data).
Mellette County, SD has 1 watched bank; 1 Mellette, SD bank sits in an elevated band. Mellette, SD footprints: First Fidelity Bank (1 branch, stress 61) in Mellette, SD.
138 of the 779 housing units in Mellette, SD sit vacant.