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

Benton County, IA, Iowa: 24 ZIP codes scored, Benton County, IA averaging 19/100 (low, Benton, IA), from 6 to 23. Benton County, IA is in its neutral phase (Benton, IA confidence 33/100): Benton, IA home prices up 4.9% (Benton, IA) over twelve months. Benton County, IA lender headwind: 55/100.

Highest-scoring Benton County, IA ZIPs: 52213 (23/100), 52225 (23/100), 52228 (23/100), 52324 (23/100), 52224 (21/100), 52208 (19/100). Also scored in Benton County, IA: 52351, 52352, 52206, 52209, 52229, 52249, 52257, 52313, 52315, 52318.

Across Benton County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $210,470, household income $88,442, 6.9% vacancy, 7.5% poverty, 86% owner-occupied, median age 43.3.

Benton County, IA insurance distress 18/100 (#2,387 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Benton, IA; 1 Benton, IA NFIP flood claims, $4K paid; Benton, IA construction distress 78/100.

11 banks with 12 branches lend in Benton County, IA; Benton, IA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 79/100 in Benton, IA.

Benton County, IA unemployment 3.3% (Benton, IA -0.8 pts, six months); 22 new housing units permitted in Benton County, IA over twelve months, Benton, IA down 29% from 31; Benton, IA home prices +7.2% a year (Benton, IA) over three years.

11,114 housing units in Benton County, IA; 1,591 Benton, IA renter households; 28% of Benton, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Benton, IA) half or more.

Benton County, IA ranks #2,139 nationally on the opportunity index (Benton, IA, among all ranked counties); Benton, IA scores 27.2/100 and Benton, IA sits #47 inside Iowa. Benton, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Benton, IA's primary driver is construction, Benton, IA second driver bank institutional; Benton, IA moved down 153 places. 6 short-sale listings across Benton, IA; 47 days on market observed in Benton, IA; 7.8% vacancy over 24 Benton, IA ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Benton County, IA. The metro area reading for Benton, IA (Cedar Rapids, IA): 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Benton, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.0% (Benton, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.

Benton County, IA has 9 watched banks; 9 Benton, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Benton, IA footprints: Chelsea Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 51) in Benton, IA; Keystone Savings Bank (1 branch, stress 79) in Benton, IA; Farmers Savings Bank&Trust (1 branch, stress 74) in Benton, IA.

912 of the 11,114 housing units in Benton, IA sit vacant. Benton County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Benton, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 22 units in Benton County, IA.