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

Hancock County, IA, Iowa: 13 ZIP codes scored, Hancock County, IA averaging 20/100 (low, Hancock, IA), from 19 to 22. Hancock County, IA is in its peak phase (Hancock, IA confidence 28/100): Hancock, IA home prices up 2.5% (Hancock, IA) over twelve months. Hancock County, IA lender headwind: 40/100.

Highest-scoring Hancock County, IA ZIPs: 50480 (22/100), 50457 (21/100), 50482 (21/100), 50483 (21/100), 50430 (20/100), 50436 (20/100). Also scored in Hancock County, IA: 50449, 50484, 50423, 50432, 50438, 50439, 50447.

Across Hancock County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $121,869, household income $68,879, 12.2% vacancy, 11.9% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 40.9.

Hancock County, IA insurance distress 21/100 (#2,112 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Hancock, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Hancock County, IA since 2023; Hancock, IA construction distress 93/100.

5 banks with 6 branches lend in Hancock County, IA; Hancock, IA weighted bank stress 56/100, highest 73/100 in Hancock, IA.

Hancock County, IA unemployment 2.8% (Hancock, IA -0.2 pts, six months); 13 new housing units permitted in Hancock County, IA over twelve months, Hancock, IA down 43% from 23; Hancock, IA home prices +9.4% a year (Hancock, IA) over three years.

5,116 housing units in Hancock County, IA; 832 Hancock, IA renter households; 35% of Hancock, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Hancock, IA) half or more.

Hancock County, IA ranks #1,691 nationally on the opportunity index (Hancock, IA, among all ranked counties); Hancock, IA scores 28.8/100 and Hancock, IA sits #27 inside Iowa. Hancock, IA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Hancock, IA's primary driver is construction, Hancock, IA second driver bank institutional; Hancock, IA moved down 343 places. 6 short-sale listings across Hancock, IA; 35 days on market observed in Hancock, IA; 9.2% vacancy over 13 Hancock, IA ZIPs.

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

Hancock County, IA has 5 watched banks; 5 Hancock, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Hancock, IA footprints: First State Bank (2 branches, stress 39) in Hancock, IA; Reliance State Bank (1 branch, stress 73) in Hancock, IA; Iowa State Bank (1 branch, stress 72) in Hancock, IA.

443 of the 5,116 housing units in Hancock, IA sit vacant. Hancock County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Hancock, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 13 units in Hancock County, IA.