Black Hawk County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Black Hawk County, IA, Iowa: 18 ZIP codes scored, Black Hawk County, IA averaging 17/100 (low, Black Hawk, IA), from 12 to 24. Black Hawk County, IA is in its peak phase (Black Hawk, IA confidence 18/100): Black Hawk, IA home prices up 1.9% (Black Hawk, IA) over twelve months. Black Hawk County, IA lender headwind: 42/100.

Highest-scoring Black Hawk County, IA ZIPs: 50675 (24/100), 50670 (23/100), 50612 (20/100), 50623 (17/100), 50626 (17/100), 50634 (17/100). Also scored in Black Hawk County, IA: 50651, 50667, 50701, 50702, 50703, 50707, 50613, 50643, 50647, 50648.

Across Black Hawk County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $202,106, household income $69,443, 8.2% vacancy, 10.1% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 40.5.

Black Hawk County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,674 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Black Hawk, IA; Black Hawk, IA construction distress 49/100.

13 banks with 32 branches lend in Black Hawk County, IA; Black Hawk, IA weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 90/100 in Black Hawk, IA.

Black Hawk County, IA unemployment 4.1% (Black Hawk, IA +0.2 pts, six months); 389 new housing units permitted in Black Hawk County, IA over twelve months, Black Hawk, IA up 1% from 384; Black Hawk, IA home prices +8.7% a year (Black Hawk, IA) over three years.

58,991 housing units in Black Hawk County, IA; 18,638 Black Hawk, IA renter households; 46% of Black Hawk, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Black Hawk, IA) half or more.

Black Hawk County, IA ranks #2,618 nationally on the opportunity index (Black Hawk, IA, among all ranked counties); Black Hawk, IA scores 25.3/100 and Black Hawk, IA sits #70 inside Iowa. Black Hawk, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Black Hawk, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Black Hawk, IA second driver construction; Black Hawk, IA moved up 209 places. 1 short-sale listings across Black Hawk, IA; 120 days on market observed in Black Hawk, IA; 8.5% vacancy over 18 Black Hawk, IA ZIPs.

1.0% of Black Hawk County, IA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Black Hawk, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.2% (CFPB county sample). Black Hawk, IA's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Black Hawk, IA peak since 2008 was 2.4% in August 2012; Iowa overall reads 0.9%.

Black Hawk County, IA has 7 watched banks; 7 Black Hawk, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Black Hawk, IA footprints: Farmers State Bank (5 branches, stress 59) in Black Hawk, IA; Lincoln Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 90) in Black Hawk, IA; Bankiowa (3 branches, stress 50) in Black Hawk, IA.

HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Black Hawk County, IA with 327 units; 155 Black Hawk, IA units are assisted, 3 Black Hawk, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

4,428 of the 58,991 housing units in Black Hawk, IA sit vacant. Black Hawk County, IA permitted 173 multifamily units in twelve months; Black Hawk, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 216 units in Black Hawk County, IA.