ZIP 59301 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Custer County, Montana's ZIP 59301 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (37/100), mortgage stress (4/100). mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (4/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 37/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100.

The peak-phase market in 59301 posted values that rose 2.2% over the year, and 26% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

11,598 residents call 59301 home, typically aged 43. Home values center near $217,900, an affordability ratio of 3.2× — accessible. The vacancy rate is 12.4% — elevated. 67% of housing is owner-occupied. About 30% have a four-year degree. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 5,549 housing units. Households earn a median $63,643 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 11.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Taken together, 59301 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.

Big metro or rural, 59301 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 16/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Custer County, Montana and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 59301, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 16/100 figure for 59301 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. The point of the 59301 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.