ZIP 57744 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 57744 (Custer County, South Dakota) at a low 17/100 for overall property distress. The latent-versus-live split is 37/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (37/100), institutional ownership (20/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (3/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.3% over the trailing year, and 34% higher over three years (phase confidence 25/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The poverty rate is 16.1%. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households. Households earn a median $110,673 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 90% owner-occupied to 10% rented. The vacancy rate is 12.6% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. Educational attainment sits at 39% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 1,185 housing units. A median home runs $386,800 here, or 3.2 times local income. Population is roughly 2,211 with a median age of 46.

Net-net, 57744 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 57744 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The number is not local guesswork: 57744's 17/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 57744 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 17/100 for 57744 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 57744 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.