ZIP 57761 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Meade County, South Dakota's ZIP 57761 registers 19/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 43 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (64/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (92/100), structural risk (43/100), institutional ownership (4/100). institutional ownership (4/100) and mortgage stress (3/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.3% over the trailing year, 2.0% off the recent peak, at 25/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

1,274 residents call 57761 home, typically aged 38. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. There are about 447 housing units across 57761. 86% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 61% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $253,100 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). At $101,042, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 18.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 10.3%.

Taken together, 57761 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.