ZIP 83251 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 83251's composite property-distress score is 13/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Custer County, Idaho. The latent-versus-live split is 30/100 structural and 3/100 already moving. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (64/100), structural risk (30/100), mortgage stress (9/100). mortgage stress (9/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.5% over the trailing year, and 16% lower over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%. The poverty rate is 14.7%. Vacancy runs 37.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 25% have a four-year degree. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 39/100. A median home runs $366,900 here, or 5.8 times local income. Median household income is $55,938, below the U.S. median near $78,000. About 1,322 people live here, median age 60. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 942 housing units across 83251.

Taken together, 83251 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 83251 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 83251's 13/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Custer County, Idaho or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 83251 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 13/100 figure for 83251 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. For a buyer, 83251 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.