Story County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Story County, IA, Iowa: 23 ZIP codes scored, Story County, IA averaging 25/100 (low, Story, IA), from 19 to 33. Story County, IA is in its neutral phase (Story, IA confidence 42/100): Story, IA home prices up 4.6% (Story, IA) over twelve months. Story County, IA lender headwind: 65/100.
Highest-scoring Story County, IA ZIPs: 50226 (33/100), 50161 (31/100), 50244 (31/100), 50046 (29/100), 50124 (29/100), 50010 (25/100). Also scored in Story County, IA: 50012, 50013, 50056, 50105, 50201, 50236, 50243, 50278, 50134, 50014.
Across Story County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $239,029, household income $78,668, 6.7% vacancy, 8.2% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 38.0.
Story County, IA insurance distress 60/100 (#889 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Story, IA; 4 federal disaster declarations in Story County, IA since 2023; 4 Story, IA NFIP flood claims, $82K paid; Story, IA construction distress 39/100.
21 banks with 37 branches lend in Story County, IA; Story, IA weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 94/100 in Story, IA.
Story County, IA unemployment 3.0%; 236 new housing units permitted in Story County, IA over twelve months, Story, IA up 22% from 193; Story, IA home prices +8.3% a year (Story, IA) over three years.
41,887 housing units in Story County, IA; 17,040 Story, IA renter households; 48% of Story, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Story, IA) half or more.
Story County, IA ranks #2,103 nationally on the opportunity index (Story, IA, among all ranked counties); Story, IA scores 27.3/100 and Story, IA sits #47 inside Iowa. Story, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Story, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Story, IA second driver construction; Story, IA moved up 290 places. 38 short-sale listings across Story, IA; 33 days on market observed in Story, IA; 5.8% vacancy over 23 Story, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Story County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Story, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Story, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Story, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Story County, IA has 15 watched banks; 15 Story, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Story, IA footprints: South Story Bank&Trust (4 branches, stress 71) in Story, IA; Visionbank Of Iowa (4 branches, stress 59) in Story, IA; First Nb Ames Iowa (3 branches, stress 68) in Story, IA.
HUD lists 7 assisted multifamily properties in Story County, IA with 898 units; 108 Story, IA units are assisted, 1 Story, IA properties under project-based Section 8.
2,983 of the 41,887 housing units in Story, IA sit vacant. Story County, IA permitted 35 multifamily units in twelve months; Story, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 201 units in Story County, IA.