Montgomery County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Montgomery County, IA, Iowa: 10 ZIP codes scored, Montgomery County, IA averaging 15/100 (low, Montgomery, IA), from 11 to 20. Montgomery County, IA is in its peak phase (Montgomery, IA confidence 28/100): Montgomery, IA home prices up 2.5% (Montgomery, IA) over twelve months. Montgomery County, IA lender headwind: 26/100.
Highest-scoring Montgomery County, IA ZIPs: 51532 (20/100), 51533 (17/100), 51566 (17/100), 51541 (15/100), 50847 (14/100), 50864 (14/100). Also scored in Montgomery County, IA: 51573, 51638, 51645, 50857.
Across Montgomery County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $122,378, household income $63,047, 6.8% vacancy, 9.7% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 48.0.
Montgomery County, IA insurance distress 45/100 (#1,229 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Montgomery, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Montgomery County, IA since 2023; 1 Montgomery, IA NFIP flood claims, $2K paid; Montgomery, IA construction distress 28/100.
3 banks with 6 branches lend in Montgomery County, IA; Montgomery, IA weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 69/100 in Montgomery, IA.
Montgomery County, IA unemployment 3.0% (Montgomery, IA -0.1 pts, six months); 14 new housing units permitted in Montgomery County, IA over twelve months, Montgomery, IA up 56% from 9; Montgomery, IA home prices +11.7% a year (Montgomery, IA) over three years.
5,005 housing units in Montgomery County, IA; 1,309 Montgomery, IA renter households; 42% of Montgomery, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 27% (Montgomery, IA) half or more.
Montgomery County, IA ranks #3,163 nationally on the opportunity index (Montgomery, IA, among all ranked counties); Montgomery, IA scores 21.1/100 and Montgomery, IA sits #98 inside Iowa. Montgomery, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Montgomery, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Montgomery, IA second driver vacancy; Montgomery, IA moved down 392 places. 1 short-sale listings across Montgomery, IA; 8.0% vacancy over 10 Montgomery, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Montgomery County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Montgomery, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Montgomery, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Montgomery, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Montgomery County, IA has 2 watched banks; 2 Montgomery, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Montgomery, IA footprints: Bank Iowa (2 branches, stress 69) in Montgomery, IA; Houghton State Bank (2 branches, stress 34) in Montgomery, IA.
420 of the 5,005 housing units in Montgomery, IA sit vacant. Montgomery County, IA permitted 5 multifamily units in twelve months; Montgomery, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 9 units in Montgomery County, IA.