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

Mahaska County, IA, Iowa: 20 ZIP codes scored, Mahaska County, IA averaging 11/100 (minimal, Mahaska, IA), from 6 to 19. Mahaska County, IA is in its peak phase (Mahaska, IA confidence 21/100): Mahaska, IA home prices up 2.7% (Mahaska, IA) over twelve months. Mahaska County, IA lender headwind: 56/100.

Highest-scoring Mahaska County, IA ZIPs: 50251 (19/100), 50153 (18/100), 50171 (18/100), 50104 (14/100), 52501 (14/100), 52553 (12/100). Also scored in Mahaska County, IA: 50027, 50143, 50207, 52534, 52543, 52561, 52577, 52586, 52595, 50268.

Across Mahaska County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $154,179, household income $67,034, 8.3% vacancy, 9.3% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 41.6.

Mahaska County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,697 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Mahaska, IA; Mahaska, IA construction distress 47/100.

7 banks with 8 branches lend in Mahaska County, IA; Mahaska, IA weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 86/100 in Mahaska, IA.

Mahaska County, IA unemployment 2.8% (Mahaska, IA +0.1 pts, six months); 60 new housing units permitted in Mahaska County, IA over twelve months, Mahaska, IA down 3% from 62; Mahaska, IA home prices +10.9% a year (Mahaska, IA) over three years.

9,728 housing units in Mahaska County, IA; 2,860 Mahaska, IA renter households; 28% of Mahaska, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 11% (Mahaska, IA) half or more.

Mahaska County, IA ranks #2,784 nationally on the opportunity index (Mahaska, IA, among all ranked counties); Mahaska, IA scores 24.5/100 and Mahaska, IA sits #76 inside Iowa. Mahaska, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Mahaska, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Mahaska, IA second driver construction; Mahaska, IA moved down 22 places. 7 short-sale listings across Mahaska, IA; 108 days on market observed in Mahaska, IA; 7.6% vacancy over 20 Mahaska, IA ZIPs.

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

Mahaska County, IA has 5 watched banks; 5 Mahaska, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Mahaska, IA footprints: Bank Iowa (2 branches, stress 69) in Mahaska, IA; Twin Cedars Bank (1 branch, stress 86) in Mahaska, IA; Trubank (1 branch, stress 71) in Mahaska, IA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Mahaska County, IA with 40 units; 40 Mahaska, IA units are assisted, 1 Mahaska, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

985 of the 9,728 housing units in Mahaska, IA sit vacant. Mahaska County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Mahaska, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 60 units in Mahaska County, IA.