ZIP 56572 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Otter Tail County, Minnesota, ZIP 56572 scores 19 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (70/100), structural risk (41/100), mortgage stress (7/100). mortgage stress (7/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (77/100). The split runs 41/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year, and 18% higher over three years, at 19/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Educational attainment sits at 29% bachelor's-or-above. Roughly 8.7% live below the poverty line. At $83,631, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. There are about 4,158 housing units across 56572. Population is roughly 5,900 with a median age of 50. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented. Vacancy runs 43.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Home values center near $298,800, an affordability ratio of 3.5× — accessible.

On the whole, 56572 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 56572 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 56572 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 19/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 56572 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

56572's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 56572 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.