ZIP 57226 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 57226 in Deuel County, South Dakota carries a composite property-distress score of 7/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (54/100), structural risk (17/100), mortgage stress (5/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100). The latent-versus-live split is 17/100 structural and 1/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.2% over the trailing year, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

1,834 residents call 57226 home, typically aged 43. 76% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 16.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $71,250, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 9.0%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100. A median home runs $206,400 here, or 2.5 times local income. Rent burden reaches 24% of tenant households. There are about 890 housing units across 57226. Around 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 57226 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 57226 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 57226 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. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 57226 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 7/100 figure for 57226 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 57226 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.