Hardin County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Hardin County, IA, Iowa: 13 ZIP codes scored, Hardin County, IA averaging 18/100 (low, Hardin, IA), from 9 to 24. Hardin County, IA is in its peak phase (Hardin, IA confidence 28/100): Hardin, IA home prices up 2.5% (Hardin, IA) over twelve months. Hardin County, IA lender headwind: 59/100.
Highest-scoring Hardin County, IA ZIPs: 50154 (24/100), 50230 (20/100), 50258 (20/100), 50102 (19/100), 50122 (19/100), 50206 (19/100). Also scored in Hardin County, IA: 50269, 50006, 50126, 50672, 50601, 50627, 50680.
Across Hardin County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $131,038, household income $69,236, 12.9% vacancy, 6.5% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 47.2.
Hardin County, IA insurance distress 21/100 (#2,079 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Hardin, IA; 3 Hardin, IA NFIP flood claims, $22K paid; Hardin, IA construction distress 53/100.
7 banks with 14 branches lend in Hardin County, IA; Hardin, IA weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 79/100 in Hardin, IA.
Hardin County, IA unemployment 3.6% (Hardin, IA +0.4 pts, six months); 20 new housing units permitted in Hardin County, IA over twelve months, Hardin, IA up 0% from 20; Hardin, IA home prices +9.6% a year (Hardin, IA) over three years.
8,011 housing units in Hardin County, IA; 1,871 Hardin, IA renter households; 38% of Hardin, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Hardin, IA) half or more.
Hardin County, IA ranks #1,030 nationally on the opportunity index (Hardin, IA, among all ranked counties); Hardin, IA scores 31.0/100 and Hardin, IA sits #11 inside Iowa. Hardin, IA is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Hardin, IA's primary driver is vacancy, Hardin, IA second driver bank institutional; Hardin, IA moved up 318 places. 5 short-sale listings across Hardin, IA; 60 days on market observed in Hardin, IA; 12.3% vacancy over 13 Hardin, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Hardin County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Hardin, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Hardin, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Hardin, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Hardin County, IA has 7 watched banks; 7 Hardin, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Hardin, IA footprints: Green Belt Bank&Trust (5 branches, stress 58) in Hardin, IA; Hardin County Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 78) in Hardin, IA; Security State Bank (2 branches, stress 75) in Hardin, IA.
973 of the 8,011 housing units in Hardin, IA sit vacant. Hardin County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Hardin, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 20 units in Hardin County, IA.