O'Brien County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

O'Brien County, IA, Iowa: 14 ZIP codes scored, O'Brien County, IA averaging 22/100 (low, O'Brien, IA), from 18 to 25. O'Brien County, IA is in its peak phase (O'Brien, IA confidence 28/100): O'Brien, IA home prices up 2.5% (O'Brien, IA) over twelve months. O'Brien County, IA lender headwind: 28/100.

Highest-scoring O'Brien County, IA ZIPs: 51058 (25/100), 51346 (25/100), 51009 (24/100), 51046 (24/100), 51231 (24/100), 51245 (24/100). Also scored in O'Brien County, IA: 51248, 51047, 51232, 51350, 51022, 51201, 51238, 51029.

Across O'Brien County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $147,508, household income $73,636, 9.6% vacancy, 13.0% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 41.5.

O'Brien County, IA insurance distress 54/100 (#1,026 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for O'Brien, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in O'Brien County, IA since 2023; 1 O'Brien, IA NFIP flood claims, $122K paid; O'Brien, IA construction distress 84/100.

9 banks with 13 branches lend in O'Brien County, IA; O'Brien, IA weighted bank stress 52/100, highest 71/100 in O'Brien, IA.

O'Brien County, IA unemployment 2.4% (O'Brien, IA -0.2 pts, six months); 13 new housing units permitted in O'Brien County, IA over twelve months, O'Brien, IA down 66% from 38; O'Brien, IA home prices +8.7% a year (O'Brien, IA) over three years.

6,564 housing units in O'Brien County, IA; 1,314 O'Brien, IA renter households; 31% of O'Brien, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (O'Brien, IA) half or more.

O'Brien County, IA ranks #2,371 nationally on the opportunity index (O'Brien, IA, among all ranked counties); O'Brien, IA scores 26.4/100 and O'Brien, IA sits #63 inside Iowa. O'Brien, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; O'Brien, IA's primary driver is construction, O'Brien, IA second driver bank institutional; O'Brien, IA moved down 893 places. 22 days on market observed in O'Brien, IA; 10.0% vacancy over 14 O'Brien, IA ZIPs.

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

O'Brien County, IA has 9 watched banks; 9 O'Brien, IA banks sit in an elevated band. O'Brien, IA footprints: Iowa State Bank (3 branches, stress 55) in O'Brien, IA; Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 53) in O'Brien, IA; Security State Bank (2 branches, stress 36) in O'Brien, IA.

755 of the 6,564 housing units in O'Brien, IA sit vacant. O'Brien County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; O'Brien, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 13 units in O'Brien County, IA.