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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Union County, South Dakota using verifiable public-record signals alone. On bank and credit headwind, Union County scores 5/100. ZIP-level distress ranges from 26/100 at the top down to 21/100. DLRadar scores 9 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 23/100.

In its contraction phase, Union County home prices fell 1.3% across the last year, now 1.3% off the recent peak, at 35/100 phase confidence. While the market slides, carrying costs bite harder which surfaces more motivated sellers.

With Union County at -1.3% YoY (35/100 confidence), discipline beats speed while exits stay cautious. A low 5/100 bank headwind points the search to tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Highest scores land in 51001 (26/100), 57034 (24/100), 57001 (23/100), 57004 (23/100), 57025 (23/100), 57038 (23/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 57049, 51023, 57010 and more.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Union County show incomes around $84,000, vacancy near 6.8%, poverty running near 6.1%, an owner-occupied share of 75%, median home values around $255,611 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 42.6. Read together, they drive which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

With a low 23/100 reading over 9 ZIPs, Union County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Union County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

Whether Union 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 Union County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Treat Union County, South Dakota as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. What supports the Union County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Union County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 51001 (26/100), 57034 (24/100), 57001 (23/100), 57004 (23/100), 57025 (23/100), 57038 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 57049, 51023, 57010 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 Union 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.