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

Marion County, IA, Iowa: 19 ZIP codes scored, Marion County, IA averaging 10/100 (minimal, Marion, IA), from 5 to 31. Marion County, IA is in its peak phase (Marion, IA confidence 21/100): Marion, IA home prices up 2.7% (Marion, IA) over twelve months. Marion County, IA lender headwind: 62/100.

Highest-scoring Marion County, IA ZIPs: 50237 (31/100), 50228 (19/100), 50170 (16/100), 50139 (15/100), 50150 (12/100), 50252 (12/100). Also scored in Marion County, IA: 50143, 50057, 50062, 50116, 50119, 50138, 50163, 50214, 50225, 50044.

Across Marion County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $201,732, household income $79,219, 9.2% vacancy, 6.8% poverty, 87% owner-occupied, median age 42.8.

Marion County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,698 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Marion, IA; Marion, IA construction distress 3/100.

10 banks with 17 branches lend in Marion County, IA; Marion, IA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 86/100 in Marion, IA.

Marion County, IA unemployment 2.7% (Marion, IA -0.2 pts, six months); 234 new housing units permitted in Marion County, IA over twelve months, Marion, IA up 141% from 97; Marion, IA home prices +8.6% a year (Marion, IA) over three years.

14,386 housing units in Marion County, IA; 2,984 Marion, IA renter households; 38% of Marion, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Marion, IA) half or more.

Marion County, IA ranks #3,057 nationally on the opportunity index (Marion, IA, among all ranked counties); Marion, IA scores 22.5/100 and Marion, IA sits #92 inside Iowa. Marion, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Marion, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Marion, IA second driver vacancy; Marion, IA moved up 79 places. 5 short-sale listings across Marion, IA; 74 days on market observed in Marion, IA; 6.5% vacancy over 19 Marion, IA ZIPs.

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

Marion County, IA has 6 watched banks; 6 Marion, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Marion, IA footprints: Marion County State Bank (5 branches, stress 53) in Marion, IA; Peoples Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 81) in Marion, IA; Leighton State Bank (2 branches, stress 49) in Marion, IA.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Marion County, IA with 79 units; 29 Marion, IA units are assisted.

1,070 of the 14,386 housing units in Marion, IA sit vacant. Marion County, IA permitted 50 multifamily units in twelve months; Marion, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 184 units in Marion County, IA.