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

Jackson County, IA, Iowa: 16 ZIP codes scored, Jackson County, IA averaging 19/100 (low, Jackson, IA), from 17 to 20. Jackson County, IA is in its peak phase (Jackson, IA confidence 28/100): Jackson, IA home prices up 2.5% (Jackson, IA) over twelve months. Jackson County, IA lender headwind: 28/100.

Highest-scoring Jackson County, IA ZIPs: 52037 (20/100), 52064 (20/100), 52069 (20/100), 52070 (20/100), 52731 (20/100), 52030 (19/100). Also scored in Jackson County, IA: 52060, 52071, 52074, 52075, 52079, 52207, 52032, 52309, 52031, 52054.

Across Jackson County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $174,550, household income $75,835, 8.7% vacancy, 10.5% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 49.2.

Jackson County, IA insurance distress 27/100 (#1,718 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Jackson, IA; 4 federal disaster declarations in Jackson County, IA since 2023; Jackson, IA construction distress 43/100.

6 banks with 12 branches lend in Jackson County, IA; Jackson, IA weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 71/100 in Jackson, IA.

Jackson County, IA unemployment 4.3% (Jackson, IA -0.3 pts, six months); 22 new housing units permitted in Jackson County, IA over twelve months, Jackson, IA up 5% from 21; Jackson, IA home prices +8.2% a year (Jackson, IA) over three years.

9,282 housing units in Jackson County, IA; 1,780 Jackson, IA renter households; 35% of Jackson, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Jackson, IA) half or more.

Jackson County, IA ranks #2,059 nationally on the opportunity index (Jackson, IA, among all ranked counties); Jackson, IA scores 27.5/100 and Jackson, IA sits #47 inside Iowa. Jackson, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Jackson, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Jackson, IA second driver vacancy; Jackson, IA moved down 977 places. 1 short-sale listings across Jackson, IA; 3 days on market observed in Jackson, IA; 9.7% vacancy over 16 Jackson, IA ZIPs.

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

Jackson County, IA has 6 watched banks; 6 Jackson, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Jackson, IA footprints: Maquoketa State Bank (4 branches, stress 41) in Jackson, IA; Clinton National Bank (3 branches, stress 71) in Jackson, IA; Fidelity Bank&Trust (2 branches, stress 63) in Jackson, IA.

1,040 of the 9,282 housing units in Jackson, IA sit vacant. Jackson County, IA permitted 5 multifamily units in twelve months; Jackson, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 17 units in Jackson County, IA.