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

Mills County, IA, Iowa: 11 ZIP codes scored, Mills County, IA averaging 16/100 (low, Mills, IA), from 12 to 27. Mills County, IA is in its neutral phase (Mills, IA confidence 24/100): Mills, IA home prices up 3.8% (Mills, IA) over twelve months. Mills County, IA lender headwind: 47/100.

Highest-scoring Mills County, IA ZIPs: 51503 (27/100), 51533 (17/100), 51571 (17/100), 51541 (15/100), 51534 (14/100), 51540 (14/100). Also scored in Mills County, IA: 51551, 51554, 51561, 51645, 51653.

Across Mills County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $247,180, household income $78,866, 18.8% vacancy, 6.2% poverty, 86% owner-occupied, median age 42.7.

Mills County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,699 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Mills, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Mills County, IA since 2023; Mills, IA construction distress 87/100.

6 banks with 7 branches lend in Mills County, IA; Mills, IA weighted bank stress 52/100, highest 98/100 in Mills, IA.

Mills County, IA unemployment 3.2%; 20 new housing units permitted in Mills County, IA over twelve months, Mills, IA down 46% from 37; Mills, IA home prices +8.8% a year (Mills, IA) over three years.

6,134 housing units in Mills County, IA; 846 Mills, IA renter households; 31% of Mills, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Mills, IA) half or more.

Mills County, IA ranks #1,461 nationally on the opportunity index (Mills, IA, among all ranked counties); Mills, IA scores 29.6/100 and Mills, IA sits #21 inside Iowa. Mills, IA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Mills, IA's primary driver is construction, Mills, IA second driver bank institutional; Mills, IA moved up 342 places. 33 short-sale listings across Mills, IA; 54 days on market observed in Mills, IA; 9.7% vacancy over 11 Mills, IA ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Mills County, IA. The metro area reading for Mills, IA (Omaha, NE-IA): 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Mills, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.6% (Mills, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.

Mills County, IA has 4 watched banks; 4 Mills, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Mills, IA footprints: Glenwood State Bank (2 branches, stress 31) in Mills, IA; Tri-Valley Bank (1 branch, stress 98) in Mills, IA; Malvern Bank (1 branch, stress 66) in Mills, IA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Mills County, IA with 20 units; 19 Mills, IA units are assisted, 1 Mills, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

740 of the 6,134 housing units in Mills, IA sit vacant. Mills County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Mills, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 20 units in Mills County, IA.