Lee County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lee County, IA, Iowa: 13 ZIP codes scored, Lee County, IA averaging 10/100 (minimal, Lee, IA), from 7 to 10. Lee County, IA is in its peak phase (Lee, IA confidence 21/100): Lee, IA home prices up 2.7% (Lee, IA) over twelve months. Lee County, IA lender headwind: 33/100.
Highest-scoring Lee County, IA ZIPs: 52619 (10/100), 52624 (10/100), 52625 (10/100), 52627 (10/100), 52631 (10/100), 52632 (10/100). Also scored in Lee County, IA: 52639, 52649, 52656, 52657, 52658, 52630, 52626.
Across Lee County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $165,685, household income $60,715, 9.3% vacancy, 8.5% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 45.6.
Lee County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,693 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Lee, IA; Lee, IA construction distress 1/100.
6 banks with 22 branches lend in Lee County, IA; Lee, IA weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 73/100 in Lee, IA.
Lee County, IA unemployment 4.0% (Lee, IA +0.2 pts, six months); 71 new housing units permitted in Lee County, IA over twelve months, Lee, IA up 65% from 43; Lee, IA home prices +5.8% a year (Lee, IA) over three years.
15,794 housing units in Lee County, IA; 3,505 Lee, IA renter households; 42% of Lee, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Lee, IA) half or more.
Lee County, IA ranks #2,941 nationally on the opportunity index (Lee, IA, among all ranked counties); Lee, IA scores 23.6/100 and Lee, IA sits #90 inside Iowa. Lee, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Lee, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Lee, IA second driver vacancy; Lee, IA moved up 189 places. 3 short-sale listings across Lee, IA; 88 days on market observed in Lee, IA; 9.5% vacancy over 13 Lee, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Lee County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Lee, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Lee, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Lee, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Lee County, IA has 4 watched banks; 4 Lee, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Lee, IA footprints: Pilot Grove Savings Bank (9 branches, stress 46) in Lee, IA; Connection Bank (4 branches, stress 54) in Lee, IA; Farmers Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 73) in Lee, IA.
HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Lee County, IA with 60 units; 60 Lee, IA units are assisted, 1 Lee, IA properties under project-based Section 8.
1,471 of the 15,794 housing units in Lee, IA sit vacant. Lee County, IA permitted 57 multifamily units in twelve months; Lee, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 14 units in Lee County, IA.