Linn County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Linn County, IA, Iowa: 30 ZIP codes scored, Linn County, IA averaging 22/100 (low, Linn, IA), from 13 to 25. Linn County, IA is in its neutral phase (Linn, IA confidence 33/100): Linn, IA home prices up 4.9% (Linn, IA) over twelve months. Linn County, IA lender headwind: 34/100.
Highest-scoring Linn County, IA ZIPs: 52202 (25/100), 52214 (25/100), 52219 (25/100), 52233 (25/100), 52302 (25/100), 52314 (25/100). Also scored in Linn County, IA: 52328, 52336, 52341, 52344, 52401, 52402, 52403, 52405, 52411, 52227.
Across Linn County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $250,659, household income $80,554, 6.1% vacancy, 8.6% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 41.4.
Linn County, IA insurance distress 23/100 (#2,020 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Linn, IA; 5 Linn, IA NFIP flood claims, $40K paid; Linn, IA construction distress 66/100.
26 banks with 70 branches lend in Linn County, IA; Linn, IA weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 87/100 in Linn, IA.
Linn County, IA unemployment 4.0% (Linn, IA -0.1 pts, six months); 889 new housing units permitted in Linn County, IA over twelve months, Linn, IA down 17% from 1,065; Linn, IA home prices +7.1% a year (Linn, IA) over three years.
103,104 housing units in Linn County, IA; 25,366 Linn, IA renter households; 42% of Linn, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Linn, IA) half or more.
Linn County, IA ranks #1,691 nationally on the opportunity index (Linn, IA, among all ranked counties); Linn, IA scores 28.8/100 and Linn, IA sits #30 inside Iowa. Linn, IA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Linn, IA's primary driver is construction, Linn, IA second driver bank institutional; Linn, IA moved up 645 places. 73 short-sale listings across Linn, IA; 69 days on market observed in Linn, IA; 6.7% vacancy over 30 Linn, IA ZIPs.
0.7% of Linn County, IA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Linn, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.1% (CFPB county sample). Linn, IA's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Linn, IA peak since 2008 was 2.4% in September 2009; Iowa overall reads 0.9%.
Linn County, IA has 20 watched banks; 20 Linn, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Linn, IA footprints: Farmers State Bank (8 branches, stress 33) in Linn, IA; Hills Bank&Trust Co (7 branches, stress 38) in Linn, IA; Cedar Rapids Bank&Trust Co (6 branches, stress 15) in Linn, IA.
HUD lists 15 assisted multifamily properties in Linn County, IA with 699 units; 512 Linn, IA units are assisted, 6 Linn, IA properties under project-based Section 8.
7,504 of the 103,104 housing units in Linn, IA sit vacant. Linn County, IA permitted 374 multifamily units in twelve months; Linn, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 515 units in Linn County, IA.