ZIP 57241 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 57241 in Hamlin County, South Dakota carries a composite property-distress score of 6/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural risk reads 14/100 against active distress of 2/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (35/100), structural risk (14/100), mortgage stress (6/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (6/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low.

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

Households earn a median $73,750 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 945 with a median age of 31. On demographic stress specifically, 57241 scores 20/100. Around 3% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 3.0% — low. There are about 471 housing units across 57241. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. A median home runs $123,000 here, or 1.9 times local income. About 24% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 20.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.

Net-net, 57241 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 57241 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 57241 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 6/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the public record is thin for 57241, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

57241'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. The point of the 57241 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.