ZIP 59044 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 59044 (Yellowstone County, Montana) at a low 19/100 for overall property distress. Latent structural risk is 42/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (82/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (67/100), structural risk (42/100), institutional ownership (3/100). institutional ownership (3/100) and mortgage stress (2/100) stay muted.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.0% year on year, 1.4% off the recent peak, and 6% higher over three years, at 56/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 12,488 people live here, median age 40. The typical home is worth about $346,500 (3.7× income, relatively affordable). Roughly 7.3% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Median household income is $86,011, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. Vacancy runs 3.6%. About 27% have a four-year degree. There are about 5,089 housing units across 59044. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households.

Broadly, 59044 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 59044 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 19/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Yellowstone County, Montana and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 59044 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 19/100 figure for 59044 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. Practically, 59044 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.