ZIP 56297 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 56297 (Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota) at a minimal 6/100 for overall property distress. The latent-versus-live split is 12/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (12/100), institutional ownership (5/100), mortgage stress (4/100). institutional ownership (5/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.8% over the trailing year (phase confidence 37/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $80,250, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 4.6% — low. The typical home is worth about $142,200 (1.5× income, relatively affordable). Around 35% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 824 residents call 56297 home, typically aged 44. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 21/100. The ZIP holds roughly 364 housing units. 87% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 4.5%.

On balance, 56297 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.