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

Buchanan County, IA, Iowa: 16 ZIP codes scored, Buchanan County, IA averaging 10/100 (minimal, Buchanan, IA), from 6 to 20. Buchanan County, IA is in its peak phase (Buchanan, IA confidence 28/100): Buchanan, IA home prices up 2.5% (Buchanan, IA) over twelve months. Buchanan County, IA lender headwind: 53/100.

Highest-scoring Buchanan County, IA ZIPs: 52218 (20/100), 52352 (19/100), 50626 (17/100), 50648 (14/100), 50629 (12/100), 50654 (12/100). Also scored in Buchanan County, IA: 50662, 50671, 50607, 50641, 50644, 50650, 50682, 52210, 52326, 52329.

Across Buchanan County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $166,119, household income $75,868, 9.7% vacancy, 8.4% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 42.3.

Buchanan County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,676 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Buchanan, IA; Buchanan, IA construction distress 9/100.

6 banks with 12 branches lend in Buchanan County, IA; Buchanan, IA weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 96/100 in Buchanan, IA.

Buchanan County, IA unemployment 3.2% (Buchanan, IA -0.5 pts, six months); 50 new housing units permitted in Buchanan County, IA over twelve months, Buchanan, IA up 72% from 29; Buchanan, IA home prices +8.3% a year (Buchanan, IA) over three years.

8,945 housing units in Buchanan County, IA; 1,541 Buchanan, IA renter households; 36% of Buchanan, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 12% (Buchanan, IA) half or more.

Buchanan County, IA ranks #2,832 nationally on the opportunity index (Buchanan, IA, among all ranked counties); Buchanan, IA scores 24.2/100 and Buchanan, IA sits #80 inside Iowa. Buchanan, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Buchanan, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Buchanan, IA second driver vacancy; Buchanan, IA moved up 41 places. 1 short-sale listings across Buchanan, IA; 10 days on market observed in Buchanan, IA; 8.6% vacancy over 16 Buchanan, IA ZIPs.

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

Buchanan County, IA has 6 watched banks; 6 Buchanan, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Buchanan, IA footprints: Bankiowa (6 branches, stress 50) in Buchanan, IA; Northeast Security Bank (2 branches, stress 62) in Buchanan, IA; Wcf Financial Bank (1 branch, stress 96) in Buchanan, IA.

693 of the 8,945 housing units in Buchanan, IA sit vacant. Buchanan County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Buchanan, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 50 units in Buchanan County, IA.