Benton County, AR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Benton County, AR, Arkansas: 22 ZIP codes scored, Benton County, AR averaging 29/100 (low, Benton, AR), from 20 to 30. Benton County, AR is in its peak phase (Benton, AR confidence 23/100): Benton, AR home prices up 3.0% (Benton, AR) over twelve months. Benton County, AR lender headwind: 50/100.

Highest-scoring Benton County, AR ZIPs: 72712 (30/100), 72713 (30/100), 72714 (30/100), 72715 (30/100), 72718 (30/100), 72719 (30/100). Also scored in Benton County, AR: 72722, 72732, 72734, 72736, 72739, 72745, 72747, 72751, 72758, 72761.

Across Benton County, AR's scored ZIPs: median home value $305,825, household income $85,287, 9.7% vacancy, 7.5% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 38.3.

Benton County, AR insurance distress 73/100 (#551 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Benton, AR; 9 federal disaster declarations in Benton County, AR since 2023; 20 Benton, AR NFIP flood claims, $815K paid; Benton, AR construction distress 53/100.

34 banks with 107 branches lend in Benton County, AR; Benton, AR weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 89/100 in Benton, AR.

Benton County, AR unemployment 2.9% (Benton, AR -0.6 pts, six months); 5,273 new housing units permitted in Benton County, AR over twelve months, Benton, AR down 3% from 5,422; Benton, AR home prices +13.1% a year (Benton, AR) over three years.

122,703 housing units in Benton County, AR; 35,311 Benton, AR renter households; 30% of Benton, AR renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 11% (Benton, AR) half or more.

Benton County, AR ranks #1,104 nationally on the opportunity index (Benton, AR, among all ranked counties); Benton, AR scores 30.8/100 and Benton, AR sits #50 inside Arkansas. Benton, AR is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Benton, AR's primary driver is bank institutional, Benton, AR second driver construction; Benton, AR moved up 675 places. 305 short-sale listings across Benton, AR; 51 days on market observed in Benton, AR; 8.7% vacancy over 22 Benton, AR ZIPs.

0.6% of Benton County, AR mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Benton, AR's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.5% (CFPB county sample). Benton, AR's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Benton, AR peak since 2008 was 3.4% in November 2009; Arkansas overall reads 1.3%.

Benton County, AR has 20 watched banks; 20 Benton, AR banks sit in an elevated band. Benton, AR footprints: Arvest Bank (25 branches, stress 85) in Benton, AR; Bank Ozk (8 branches, stress 41) in Benton, AR; First Security Bank (7 branches, stress 39) in Benton, AR.

HUD lists 17 assisted multifamily properties in Benton County, AR with 1,609 units; 240 Benton, AR units are assisted, 2 Benton, AR properties under project-based Section 8.

10,784 of the 122,703 housing units in Benton, AR sit vacant. Benton County, AR permitted 1,811 multifamily units in twelve months; Benton, AR's one-to-four unit structures added 3,462 units in Benton County, AR.