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

Lucas County, IA, Iowa: 9 ZIP codes scored, Lucas County, IA averaging 9/100 (minimal, Lucas, IA), from 5 to 14. Lucas County, IA is in its peak phase (Lucas, IA confidence 28/100): Lucas, IA home prices up 2.5% (Lucas, IA) over twelve months. Lucas County, IA lender headwind: 39/100.

Highest-scoring Lucas County, IA ZIPs: 50139 (14/100), 52569 (12/100), 50151 (11/100), 50123 (10/100), 50238 (9/100), 50275 (9/100). Also scored in Lucas County, IA: 50068, 50049, 50272.

Across Lucas County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $117,988, household income $66,960, 19.0% vacancy, 14.2% poverty, 90% owner-occupied, median age 46.8.

Lucas County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,695 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Lucas, IA; Lucas, IA construction distress 28/100.

3 banks with 3 branches lend in Lucas County, IA; Lucas, IA weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 81/100 in Lucas, IA.

Lucas County, IA unemployment 4.2% (Lucas, IA +0.3 pts, six months); 16 new housing units permitted in Lucas County, IA over twelve months, Lucas, IA up 45% from 11; Lucas, IA home prices +12.1% a year (Lucas, IA) over three years.

4,074 housing units in Lucas County, IA; 693 Lucas, IA renter households; 31% of Lucas, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Lucas, IA) half or more.

Lucas County, IA ranks #2,443 nationally on the opportunity index (Lucas, IA, among all ranked counties); Lucas, IA scores 26.1/100 and Lucas, IA sits #63 inside Iowa. Lucas, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Lucas, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Lucas, IA second driver vacancy; Lucas, IA moved up 452 places. 3 short-sale listings across Lucas, IA; 117 days on market observed in Lucas, IA; 9.2% vacancy over 9 Lucas, IA ZIPs.

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

Lucas County, IA has 2 watched banks; 2 Lucas, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Lucas, IA footprints: Peoples Savings Bank (1 branch, stress 81) in Lucas, IA; Midwest Heritage Bank Fsb (1 branch, stress 48) in Lucas, IA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Lucas County, IA with 58 units; 58 Lucas, IA units are assisted, 1 Lucas, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

366 of the 4,074 housing units in Lucas, IA sit vacant. Lucas County, IA permitted 10 multifamily units in twelve months; Lucas, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 6 units in Lucas County, IA.