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

Madison County, IA, Iowa: 15 ZIP codes scored, Madison County, IA averaging 16/100 (low, Madison, IA), from 13 to 19. Madison County, IA is in its peak phase (Madison, IA confidence 15/100): Madison, IA home prices up 2.1% (Madison, IA) over twelve months. Madison County, IA lender headwind: 69/100.

Highest-scoring Madison County, IA ZIPs: 50211 (19/100), 50210 (18/100), 50061 (17/100), 50149 (16/100), 50229 (16/100), 50240 (16/100). Also scored in Madison County, IA: 50033, 50070, 50072, 50155, 50218, 50222, 50273, 50261, 50257.

Across Madison County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $274,671, household income $100,030, 9.9% vacancy, 7.0% poverty, 86% owner-occupied, median age 44.9.

Madison County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,696 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Madison, IA; Madison, IA construction distress 77/100.

4 banks with 8 branches lend in Madison County, IA; Madison, IA weighted bank stress 68/100, highest 76/100 in Madison, IA.

Madison County, IA unemployment 3.3% (Madison, IA -0.4 pts, six months); 59 new housing units permitted in Madison County, IA over twelve months, Madison, IA down 41% from 100; Madison, IA home prices +10.7% a year (Madison, IA) over three years.

7,100 housing units in Madison County, IA; 1,241 Madison, IA renter households; 26% of Madison, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 13% (Madison, IA) half or more.

Madison County, IA ranks #2,664 nationally on the opportunity index (Madison, IA, among all ranked counties); Madison, IA scores 25.1/100 and Madison, IA sits #71 inside Iowa. Madison, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Madison, IA's primary driver is construction, Madison, IA second driver bank institutional; Madison, IA moved down 69 places. 7 short-sale listings across Madison, IA; 85 days on market observed in Madison, IA; 6.3% vacancy over 15 Madison, IA ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Madison County, IA. The metro area reading for Madison, IA (Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA): 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Madison, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.8% (Madison, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.

Madison County, IA has 4 watched banks; 4 Madison, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Madison, IA footprints: Farmers&Merchants State Bank (3 branches, stress 67) in Madison, IA; Union State Bank (2 branches, stress 76) in Madison, IA; Earlham Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 71) in Madison, IA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Madison County, IA with 110 units.

404 of the 7,100 housing units in Madison, IA sit vacant. Madison County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Madison, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 59 units in Madison County, IA.