ZIP 55917 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 55917 in Steele County, Minnesota carries a composite property-distress score of 19/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 41/100 structural and 4/100 already moving. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (41/100), construction/permit lag (38/100), institutional ownership (35/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (35/100) and mortgage stress (13/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.5% year on year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 25/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Households earn a median $76,310 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 5.8%. About 24% have a four-year degree. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 4.7% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. On demographic stress specifically, 55917 scores 24/100. A median home runs $207,000 here, or 2.5 times local income. The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented. About 3,531 people live here, median age 43. The ZIP holds roughly 1,450 housing units.

Net-net, 55917 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.