ZIP 56226 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pope County, Minnesota · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 56226 in Pope County, Minnesota comes in at 7, a minimal composite-distress reading. Latent structural risk is 15/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (29/100), structural risk (15/100), mortgage stress (5/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100).
The market reads peak — home values rose 3.4% year on year (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The vacancy rate is 22.3% — elevated. There are about 94 housing units across 56226. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above. 205 residents call 56226 home, typically aged 42. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. Median household income is $80,000, near the U.S. median near $78,000. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. 6.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $248,100, an affordability ratio of 2.9× — accessible.
Taken together, 56226 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 56226 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
No ZIP is too small to score: 56226 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 7/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 56226 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
56226's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 56226 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 56226’s distress
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 56226 distress snapshot
The live 56226 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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The complete 56226 distress and acquisition report
The full 56226 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through funding and closing. Refreshed continuously.
Each signal above is traceable to an open dataset · methodology