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

Clarke County, IA, Iowa: 9 ZIP codes scored, Clarke County, IA averaging 11/100 (minimal, Clarke, IA), from 8 to 17. Clarke County, IA is in its peak phase (Clarke, IA confidence 28/100): Clarke, IA home prices up 2.5% (Clarke, IA) over twelve months. Clarke County, IA lender headwind: 41/100.

Highest-scoring Clarke County, IA ZIPs: 50210 (17/100), 50222 (15/100), 50257 (13/100), 50123 (10/100), 50174 (10/100), 50213 (9/100). Also scored in Clarke County, IA: 50264, 50275, 50108.

Across Clarke County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $170,833, household income $71,398, 11.3% vacancy, 12.4% poverty, 82% owner-occupied, median age 42.2.

Clarke County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,680 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Clarke, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Clarke County, IA since 2023; Clarke, IA construction distress 51/100.

3 banks with 5 branches lend in Clarke County, IA; Clarke, IA weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 68/100 in Clarke, IA.

Clarke County, IA unemployment 2.7% (Clarke, IA -0.8 pts, six months); 136 new housing units permitted in Clarke County, IA over twelve months, Clarke, IA up 1% from 135; Clarke, IA home prices +10.2% a year (Clarke, IA) over three years.

4,522 housing units in Clarke County, IA; 1,222 Clarke, IA renter households; 36% of Clarke, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 14% (Clarke, IA) half or more.

Clarke County, IA ranks #2,139 nationally on the opportunity index (Clarke, IA, among all ranked counties); Clarke, IA scores 27.2/100 and Clarke, IA sits #47 inside Iowa. Clarke, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Clarke, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Clarke, IA second driver construction; Clarke, IA moved up 594 places. 7 short-sale listings across Clarke, IA; 118 days on market observed in Clarke, IA; 8.9% vacancy over 9 Clarke, IA ZIPs.

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

Clarke County, IA has 2 watched banks; 2 Clarke, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Clarke, IA footprints: First Nb Ames Iowa (2 branches, stress 68) in Clarke, IA; American State Bank (2 branches, stress 47) in Clarke, IA.

HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Clarke County, IA with 239 units; 68 Clarke, IA units are assisted.

451 of the 4,522 housing units in Clarke, IA sit vacant. Clarke County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Clarke, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 136 units in Clarke County, IA.