ZIP 57481 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Brown County, South Dakota · High Vacancy market
In Brown County, South Dakota, ZIP 57481 scores 17 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Structural exposure scores 40 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (99/100), structural risk (40/100), institutional ownership (5/100). institutional ownership (5/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) stay muted.
The peak-phase market in 57481 posted values that rose 1.9% over the year, at 23/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100. The typical home is worth about $215,600 (3.0× income, relatively affordable). There are about 149 housing units across 57481. The tenure split is 94% owner-occupied to 6% rented. At $66,000, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 6.4% — low. Population is roughly 361 with a median age of 46. Vacancy runs 15.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 15% have a four-year degree.
On the whole, 57481 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 57481's 17/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Brown County, South Dakota or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 57481, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 17/100 figure for 57481 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. For an operator, 57481 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 57481
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
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