Butler County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Butler County, IA, Iowa: 18 ZIP codes scored, Butler County, IA averaging 20/100 (low, Butler, IA), from 11 to 24. Butler County, IA is in its peak phase (Butler, IA confidence 28/100): Butler, IA home prices up 2.5% (Butler, IA) over twelve months. Butler County, IA lender headwind: 73/100.
Highest-scoring Butler County, IA ZIPs: 50602 (24/100), 50608 (24/100), 50611 (24/100), 50619 (24/100), 50649 (24/100), 50625 (23/100). Also scored in Butler County, IA: 50670, 50433, 50604, 50660, 50605, 50636, 50665, 50601, 50613, 50666.
Across Butler County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $156,844, household income $75,152, 9.3% vacancy, 9.5% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 46.4.
Butler County, IA insurance distress 48/100 (#1,135 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Butler, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Butler County, IA since 2023; 3 Butler, IA NFIP flood claims, $10K paid; Butler, IA construction distress 81/100.
5 banks with 9 branches lend in Butler County, IA; Butler, IA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 90/100 in Butler, IA.
Butler County, IA unemployment 3.7% (Butler, IA -0.7 pts, six months); 18 new housing units permitted in Butler County, IA over twelve months, Butler, IA down 38% from 29; Butler, IA home prices +8.1% a year (Butler, IA) over three years.
6,570 housing units in Butler County, IA; 1,177 Butler, IA renter households; 27% of Butler, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Butler, IA) half or more.
Butler County, IA ranks #2,279 nationally on the opportunity index (Butler, IA, among all ranked counties); Butler, IA scores 26.8/100 and Butler, IA sits #58 inside Iowa. Butler, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Butler, IA's primary driver is construction, Butler, IA second driver bank institutional; Butler, IA moved down 832 places. 6 short-sale listings across Butler, IA; 37 days on market observed in Butler, IA; 9.3% vacancy over 18 Butler, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Butler County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Butler, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Butler, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Butler, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Butler County, IA has 4 watched banks; 4 Butler, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Butler, IA footprints: Lincoln Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 90) in Butler, IA; Iowa State Bank (3 branches, stress 40) in Butler, IA; Green Belt Bank&Trust (1 branch, stress 58) in Butler, IA.
707 of the 6,570 housing units in Butler, IA sit vacant. Butler County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Butler, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 18 units in Butler County, IA.