ZIP 59442 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 59442 (Chouteau County, Montana) at a low 16/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (50/100), structural risk (34/100), institutional ownership (28/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (28/100) and mortgage stress (15/100) register low. Structural risk reads 34/100 against active distress of 4/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.4% year on year, and 21% higher over three years, at 41/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 1,777 people live here, median age 44. Home values center near $254,000, an affordability ratio of 3.1× — accessible. Owners hold 75% of homes, renters 25%. Vacancy runs 23.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 21% of tenant households. Median household income is $68,024, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 2.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 950 housing units across 59442. Educational attainment sits at 28% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100.

Net-net, 59442 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.