Johnson County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Johnson County, IA, Iowa: 24 ZIP codes scored, Johnson County, IA averaging 16/100 (low, Johnson, IA), from 9 to 24. Johnson County, IA is in its peak phase (Johnson, IA confidence 29/100): Johnson, IA home prices up 2.3% (Johnson, IA) over twelve months. Johnson County, IA lender headwind: 22/100.
Highest-scoring Johnson County, IA ZIPs: 52227 (24/100), 52404 (24/100), 52228 (23/100), 52766 (20/100), 52776 (18/100), 52253 (17/100). Also scored in Johnson County, IA: 52338, 52235, 52240, 52241, 52242, 52245, 52246, 52317, 52322, 52333.
Across Johnson County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $278,500, household income $74,864, 5.8% vacancy, 10.7% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 37.6.
Johnson County, IA insurance distress 5/100 (#2,446 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Johnson, IA; 1 Johnson, IA NFIP flood claims; Johnson, IA construction distress 15/100.
17 banks with 39 branches lend in Johnson County, IA; Johnson, IA weighted bank stress 54/100, highest 79/100 in Johnson, IA.
Johnson County, IA unemployment 3.0% (Johnson, IA +0.1 pts, six months); 1,414 new housing units permitted in Johnson County, IA over twelve months, Johnson, IA up 36% from 1,039; Johnson, IA home prices +7.3% a year (Johnson, IA) over three years.
68,217 housing units in Johnson County, IA; 25,608 Johnson, IA renter households; 54% of Johnson, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 30% (Johnson, IA) half or more.
Johnson County, IA ranks #3,123 nationally on the opportunity index (Johnson, IA, among all ranked counties); Johnson, IA scores 21.8/100 and Johnson, IA sits #96 inside Iowa. Johnson, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Johnson, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Johnson, IA second driver vacancy; Johnson, IA moved up 19 places. 45 short-sale listings across Johnson, IA; 71 days on market observed in Johnson, IA; 7.0% vacancy over 24 Johnson, IA ZIPs.
0.7% of Johnson County, IA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Johnson, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.7% (CFPB county sample). Johnson, IA's ninety-day rate is up 0.5 points on twelve months earlier; the Johnson, IA peak since 2008 was 1.5% in February 2010; Iowa overall reads 0.9%.
Johnson County, IA has 9 watched banks; 9 Johnson, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Johnson, IA footprints: Hills Bank&Trust Co (9 branches, stress 38) in Johnson, IA; Bank (2 branches, stress 79) in Johnson, IA; Farmers&Merchants Sb (2 branches, stress 56) in Johnson, IA.
HUD lists 9 assisted multifamily properties in Johnson County, IA with 531 units; 291 Johnson, IA units are assisted, 4 Johnson, IA properties under project-based Section 8.
4,876 of the 68,217 housing units in Johnson, IA sit vacant. Johnson County, IA permitted 813 multifamily units in twelve months; Johnson, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 601 units in Johnson County, IA.