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

Fayette County, IA, Iowa: 24 ZIP codes scored, Fayette County, IA averaging 12/100 (minimal, Fayette, IA), from 6 to 16. Fayette County, IA is in its peak phase (Fayette, IA confidence 28/100): Fayette, IA home prices up 2.5% (Fayette, IA) over twelve months. Fayette County, IA lender headwind: 71/100.

Highest-scoring Fayette County, IA ZIPs: 52144 (16/100), 52161 (16/100), 52076 (15/100), 52133 (15/100), 52162 (13/100), 50629 (12/100). Also scored in Fayette County, IA: 50655, 50664, 50681, 52135, 52141, 52142, 52147, 52164, 52166, 52169.

Across Fayette County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $151,346, household income $63,746, 10.0% vacancy, 9.1% poverty, 82% owner-occupied, median age 44.0.

Fayette County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,684 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Fayette, IA; Fayette, IA construction distress 31/100.

8 banks with 14 branches lend in Fayette County, IA; Fayette, IA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 75/100 in Fayette, IA.

Fayette County, IA unemployment 3.5% (Fayette, IA -0.6 pts, six months); 29 new housing units permitted in Fayette County, IA over twelve months, Fayette, IA up 16% from 25; Fayette, IA home prices +4.6% a year (Fayette, IA) over three years.

9,320 housing units in Fayette County, IA; 1,888 Fayette, IA renter households; 39% of Fayette, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Fayette, IA) half or more.

Fayette County, IA ranks #2,305 nationally on the opportunity index (Fayette, IA, among all ranked counties); Fayette, IA scores 26.7/100 and Fayette, IA sits #60 inside Iowa. Fayette, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Fayette, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Fayette, IA second driver vacancy; Fayette, IA moved down 168 places. 1 short-sale listings across Fayette, IA; 44 days on market observed in Fayette, IA; 11.4% vacancy over 24 Fayette, IA ZIPs.

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

Fayette County, IA has 8 watched banks; 8 Fayette, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Fayette, IA footprints: Farmers Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 75) in Fayette, IA; Bank 1st (3 branches, stress 63) in Fayette, IA; Maynard Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 60) in Fayette, IA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Fayette County, IA with 55 units; 55 Fayette, IA units are assisted, 1 Fayette, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

978 of the 9,320 housing units in Fayette, IA sit vacant. Fayette County, IA permitted 3 multifamily units in twelve months; Fayette, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 26 units in Fayette County, IA.