ZIP 59002 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Yellowstone County, Montana's ZIP 59002 registers 20/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 42/100 against active distress of 1/100. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (42/100), institutional ownership (3/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (3/100) and mortgage stress (2/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (85/100)).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.0% year on year, 1.4% off the recent peak, at 56/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The typical home is worth about $333,300 (11.3× income, severely stretched). Households earn a median $38,125 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 55% owner-occupied to 45% rented. Roughly 23.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 168 people live here, median age 36. Rent burden reaches 71% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 38.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 62/100. There are about 92 housing units across 59002. About 28% have a four-year degree.

Taken together, 59002 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 59002 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 59002 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 59002, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 20/100 figure for 59002 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. In workflow terms, 59002 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.