Kossuth County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Kossuth County, IA, Iowa: 21 ZIP codes scored, Kossuth County, IA averaging 21/100 (low, Kossuth, IA), from 19 to 23. Kossuth County, IA is in its peak phase (Kossuth, IA confidence 28/100): Kossuth, IA home prices up 2.5% (Kossuth, IA) over twelve months. Kossuth County, IA lender headwind: 11/100.
Highest-scoring Kossuth County, IA ZIPs: 50597 (23/100), 50451 (22/100), 50480 (22/100), 50511 (22/100), 50517 (22/100), 50522 (22/100). Also scored in Kossuth County, IA: 50539, 50556, 50559, 50590, 50598, 50424, 50483, 50560, 50430, 50484.
Across Kossuth County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $112,360, household income $64,636, 12.7% vacancy, 12.6% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 45.0.
Kossuth County, IA insurance distress 27/100 (#1,719 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Kossuth, IA; 4 federal disaster declarations in Kossuth County, IA since 2023; Kossuth, IA construction distress 95/100.
9 banks with 19 branches lend in Kossuth County, IA; Kossuth, IA weighted bank stress 49/100, highest 78/100 in Kossuth, IA.
Kossuth County, IA unemployment 3.2% (Kossuth, IA +0.4 pts, six months); 6 new housing units permitted in Kossuth County, IA over twelve months, Kossuth, IA down 50% from 12; Kossuth, IA home prices +7.9% a year (Kossuth, IA) over three years.
7,205 housing units in Kossuth County, IA; 1,603 Kossuth, IA renter households; 33% of Kossuth, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Kossuth, IA) half or more.
Kossuth County, IA ranks #1,470 nationally on the opportunity index (Kossuth, IA, among all ranked counties); Kossuth, IA scores 29.5/100 and Kossuth, IA sits #19 inside Iowa. Kossuth, IA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Kossuth, IA's primary driver is construction, Kossuth, IA second driver bank institutional; Kossuth, IA moved down 478 places. 4 short-sale listings across Kossuth, IA; 62 days on market observed in Kossuth, IA; 9.9% vacancy over 21 Kossuth, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Kossuth County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Kossuth, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Kossuth, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Kossuth, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Kossuth County, IA has 9 watched banks; 9 Kossuth, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Kossuth, IA footprints: Security State Bank (4 branches, stress 6) in Kossuth, IA; Iowa State Bank (3 branches, stress 72) in Kossuth, IA; West Iowa Bank (3 branches, stress 56) in Kossuth, IA.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Kossuth County, IA with 8 units.
662 of the 7,205 housing units in Kossuth, IA sit vacant. Kossuth County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Kossuth, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 6 units in Kossuth County, IA.