Adams County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Adams County, IA, Iowa: 10 ZIP codes scored, Adams County, IA averaging 13/100 (minimal, Adams, IA), from 9 to 17. Adams County, IA is in its peak phase (Adams, IA confidence 28/100): Adams, IA home prices up 2.5% (Adams, IA) over twelve months. Adams County, IA lender headwind: 80/100.

Highest-scoring Adams County, IA ZIPs: 50837 (17/100), 50843 (15/100), 50853 (15/100), 50864 (14/100), 50839 (12/100), 50841 (12/100). Also scored in Adams County, IA: 50859, 50801, 50857, 50851.

Across Adams County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $132,233, household income $61,139, 11.2% vacancy, 13.4% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 50.5.

Adams County, IA insurance distress 46/100 (#1,182 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Adams, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Adams County, IA since 2023; 1 Adams, IA NFIP flood claims, $8K paid; Adams, IA construction distress 3/100.

3 banks with 3 branches lend in Adams County, IA; Adams, IA weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 75/100 in Adams, IA.

Adams County, IA unemployment 3.2% (Adams, IA +0.4 pts, six months); 7 new housing units permitted in Adams County, IA over twelve months, Adams, IA up 250% from 2.

1,889 housing units in Adams County, IA; 356 Adams, IA renter households; 29% of Adams, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 11% (Adams, IA) half or more.

Adams County, IA ranks #2,852 nationally on the opportunity index (Adams, IA, among all ranked counties); Adams, IA scores 24.1/100 and Adams, IA sits #83 inside Iowa. Adams, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Adams, IA's primary driver is vacancy, Adams, IA second driver bank institutional; Adams, IA moved down 250 places. 1 short-sale listings across Adams, IA; 48 days on market observed in Adams, IA; 15.2% vacancy over 10 Adams, IA ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Adams County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Adams, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Adams, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Adams, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.

Adams County, IA has 3 watched banks; 3 Adams, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Adams, IA footprints: Pcsb Bank (1 branch, stress 75) in Adams, IA; Ts Bank (1 branch, stress 57) in Adams, IA; Union State Bank (1 branch, stress 49) in Adams, IA.

349 of the 1,889 housing units in Adams, IA sit vacant. Adams County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Adams, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 7 units in Adams County, IA.