Cedar County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Cedar County, IA, Iowa: 18 ZIP codes scored, Cedar County, IA averaging 18/100 (low, Cedar, IA), from 13 to 29. Cedar County, IA is in its peak phase (Cedar, IA confidence 28/100): Cedar, IA home prices up 2.5% (Cedar, IA) over twelve months. Cedar County, IA lender headwind: 47/100.
Highest-scoring Cedar County, IA ZIPs: 52765 (29/100), 52747 (23/100), 52777 (20/100), 52720 (18/100), 52760 (18/100), 52776 (18/100). Also scored in Cedar County, IA: 52253, 52778, 52216, 52255, 52306, 52333, 52337, 52721, 52772, 52320.
Across Cedar County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $198,233, household income $83,182, 8.1% vacancy, 6.4% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 42.7.
Cedar County, IA insurance distress 21/100 (#2,109 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Cedar, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Cedar County, IA since 2023; Cedar, IA construction distress 53/100.
5 banks with 9 branches lend in Cedar County, IA; Cedar, IA weighted bank stress 56/100, highest 80/100 in Cedar, IA.
Cedar County, IA unemployment 3.0% (Cedar, IA -0.5 pts, six months); 66 new housing units permitted in Cedar County, IA over twelve months, Cedar, IA down 12% from 75; Cedar, IA home prices +7.6% a year (Cedar, IA) over three years.
8,300 housing units in Cedar County, IA; 1,447 Cedar, IA renter households; 40% of Cedar, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Cedar, IA) half or more.
Cedar County, IA ranks #2,770 nationally on the opportunity index (Cedar, IA, among all ranked counties); Cedar, IA scores 24.6/100 and Cedar, IA sits #74 inside Iowa. Cedar, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Cedar, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Cedar, IA second driver construction; Cedar, IA moved down 414 places. 4 short-sale listings across Cedar, IA; 16 days on market observed in Cedar, IA; 7.7% vacancy over 18 Cedar, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Cedar County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Cedar, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Cedar, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Cedar, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Cedar County, IA has 5 watched banks; 5 Cedar, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Cedar, IA footprints: Fidelity Bank&Trust (4 branches, stress 63) in Cedar, IA; Liberty Trust&Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 26) in Cedar, IA; American Trust&Savings Bank (1 branch, stress 80) in Cedar, IA.
678 of the 8,300 housing units in Cedar, IA sit vacant. Cedar County, IA permitted 37 multifamily units in twelve months; Cedar, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 29 units in Cedar County, IA.