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

Muscatine County, IA, Iowa: 14 ZIP codes scored, Muscatine County, IA averaging 20/100 (low, Muscatine, IA), from 11 to 32. Muscatine County, IA is in its peak phase (Muscatine, IA confidence 21/100): Muscatine, IA home prices up 2.7% (Muscatine, IA) over twelve months. Muscatine County, IA lender headwind: 52/100.

Highest-scoring Muscatine County, IA ZIPs: 52773 (32/100), 52726 (28/100), 52769 (28/100), 52747 (22/100), 52749 (19/100), 52759 (19/100). Also scored in Muscatine County, IA: 52766, 52720, 52761, 52760, 52776, 52778, 52754, 52739.

Across Muscatine County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $207,957, household income $74,647, 6.3% vacancy, 6.5% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 41.2.

Muscatine County, IA insurance distress 51/100 (#1,058 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Muscatine, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Muscatine County, IA since 2023; 3 Muscatine, IA NFIP flood claims, $50K paid; Muscatine, IA construction distress 26/100.

7 banks with 15 branches lend in Muscatine County, IA; Muscatine, IA weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 68/100 in Muscatine, IA.

Muscatine County, IA unemployment 3.9% (Muscatine, IA -0.1 pts, six months); 130 new housing units permitted in Muscatine County, IA over twelve months, Muscatine, IA up 40% from 93; Muscatine, IA home prices +7.9% a year (Muscatine, IA) over three years.

18,454 housing units in Muscatine County, IA; 4,316 Muscatine, IA renter households; 37% of Muscatine, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Muscatine, IA) half or more.

Muscatine County, IA ranks #2,922 nationally on the opportunity index (Muscatine, IA, among all ranked counties); Muscatine, IA scores 23.7/100 and Muscatine, IA sits #87 inside Iowa. Muscatine, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Muscatine, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Muscatine, IA second driver vacancy; Muscatine, IA moved up 85 places. 1 short-sale listings across Muscatine, IA; 102 days on market observed in Muscatine, IA; 7.1% vacancy over 14 Muscatine, IA ZIPs.

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

Muscatine County, IA has 5 watched banks; 5 Muscatine, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Muscatine, IA footprints: Cbi Bank&Trust (4 branches, stress 62) in Muscatine, IA; Community Bank&Trust Co (3 branches, stress 68) in Muscatine, IA; Dewitt Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 60) in Muscatine, IA.

HUD lists 4 assisted multifamily properties in Muscatine County, IA with 137 units; 137 Muscatine, IA units are assisted, 2 Muscatine, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

1,109 of the 18,454 housing units in Muscatine, IA sit vacant. Muscatine County, IA permitted 65 multifamily units in twelve months; Muscatine, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 65 units in Muscatine County, IA.