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

Carroll County, IA, Iowa: 17 ZIP codes scored, Carroll County, IA averaging 16/100 (low, Carroll, IA), from 8 to 20. Carroll County, IA is in its peak phase (Carroll, IA confidence 21/100): Carroll, IA home prices up 2.7% (Carroll, IA) over twelve months. Carroll County, IA lender headwind: 55/100.

Highest-scoring Carroll County, IA ZIPs: 51449 (20/100), 51453 (20/100), 51401 (16/100), 51430 (16/100), 51440 (16/100), 51443 (16/100). Also scored in Carroll County, IA: 51444, 51451, 51452, 51459, 51463, 50050, 51436, 51455, 51462, 51467.

Across Carroll County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $145,388, household income $67,789, 11.8% vacancy, 10.0% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 42.3.

Carroll County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,677 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Carroll, IA; Carroll, IA construction distress 62/100.

9 banks with 17 branches lend in Carroll County, IA; Carroll, IA weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 75/100 in Carroll, IA.

Carroll County, IA unemployment 2.5% (Carroll, IA -0.1 pts, six months); 22 new housing units permitted in Carroll County, IA over twelve months, Carroll, IA down 15% from 26; Carroll, IA home prices +11.2% a year (Carroll, IA) over three years.

9,560 housing units in Carroll County, IA; 2,187 Carroll, IA renter households; 40% of Carroll, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 14% (Carroll, IA) half or more.

Carroll County, IA ranks #2,955 nationally on the opportunity index (Carroll, IA, among all ranked counties); Carroll, IA scores 23.5/100 and Carroll, IA sits #91 inside Iowa. Carroll, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Carroll, IA's primary driver is construction, Carroll, IA second driver bank institutional; Carroll, IA moved down 230 places. 1 short-sale listings across Carroll, IA; 103 days on market observed in Carroll, IA; 7.9% vacancy over 17 Carroll, IA ZIPs.

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

Carroll County, IA has 8 watched banks; 8 Carroll, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Carroll, IA footprints: United Bank Of Iowa (3 branches, stress 68) in Carroll, IA; Midwest Heritage Bank Fsb (3 branches, stress 48) in Carroll, IA; Availa Bank (2 branches, stress 75) in Carroll, IA.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Carroll County, IA with 54 units; 6 Carroll, IA units are assisted.

759 of the 9,560 housing units in Carroll, IA sit vacant. Carroll County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Carroll, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 22 units in Carroll County, IA.