Buena Vista County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Buena Vista County, IA, Iowa: 14 ZIP codes scored, Buena Vista County, IA averaging 22/100 (low, Buena Vista, IA), from 10 to 25. Buena Vista County, IA is in its peak phase (Buena Vista, IA confidence 21/100): Buena Vista, IA home prices up 2.7% (Buena Vista, IA) over twelve months. Buena Vista County, IA lender headwind: 52/100.
Highest-scoring Buena Vista County, IA ZIPs: 50585 (25/100), 51033 (25/100), 50565 (23/100), 50576 (23/100), 50588 (23/100), 50592 (23/100). Also scored in Buena Vista County, IA: 51002, 51047, 50510, 50568, 50554, 51005, 51366, 51020.
Across Buena Vista County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $122,871, household income $68,356, 12.3% vacancy, 7.9% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 41.3.
Buena Vista County, IA insurance distress 27/100 (#1,717 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Buena Vista, IA; 4 federal disaster declarations in Buena Vista County, IA since 2023; Buena Vista, IA construction distress 96/100.
6 banks with 14 branches lend in Buena Vista County, IA; Buena Vista, IA weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 70/100 in Buena Vista, IA.
Buena Vista County, IA unemployment 2.9% (Buena Vista, IA +0.1 pts, six months); 21 new housing units permitted in Buena Vista County, IA over twelve months, Buena Vista, IA down 78% from 95; Buena Vista, IA home prices +8.6% a year (Buena Vista, IA) over three years.
8,293 housing units in Buena Vista County, IA; 2,078 Buena Vista, IA renter households; 29% of Buena Vista, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 12% (Buena Vista, IA) half or more.
Buena Vista County, IA ranks #1,931 nationally on the opportunity index (Buena Vista, IA, among all ranked counties); Buena Vista, IA scores 27.9/100 and Buena Vista, IA sits #41 inside Iowa. Buena Vista, IA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Buena Vista, IA's primary driver is construction, Buena Vista, IA second driver bank institutional; Buena Vista, IA moved down 583 places. 102 days on market observed in Buena Vista, IA; 8.4% vacancy over 14 Buena Vista, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Buena Vista County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Buena Vista, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Buena Vista, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Buena Vista, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Buena Vista County, IA has 6 watched banks; 6 Buena Vista, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Buena Vista, IA footprints: Central Bank (3 branches, stress 70) in Buena Vista, IA; United Bank Of Iowa (3 branches, stress 68) in Buena Vista, IA; Security Trust&Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 66) in Buena Vista, IA.
HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Buena Vista County, IA with 123 units; 122 Buena Vista, IA units are assisted, 2 Buena Vista, IA properties under project-based Section 8.
747 of the 8,293 housing units in Buena Vista, IA sit vacant. Buena Vista County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Buena Vista, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 21 units in Buena Vista County, IA.