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

Union County, IA, Iowa: 11 ZIP codes scored, Union County, IA averaging 10/100 (minimal, Union, IA), from 5 to 16. Union County, IA is in its peak phase (Union, IA confidence 28/100): Union, IA home prices up 2.5% (Union, IA) over twelve months. Union County, IA lender headwind: 64/100.

Highest-scoring Union County, IA ZIPs: 50149 (16/100), 50254 (11/100), 50801 (11/100), 50830 (11/100), 50831 (11/100), 50842 (11/100). Also scored in Union County, IA: 50174, 50851, 50861, 50845, 50074.

Across Union County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $179,256, household income $61,214, 15.4% vacancy, 9.8% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 45.1.

Union County, IA insurance distress 18/100 (#2,372 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Union, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Union County, IA since 2023; 1 Union, IA NFIP flood claims, $7K paid; Union, IA construction distress 7/100.

5 banks with 8 branches lend in Union County, IA; Union, IA weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 75/100 in Union, IA.

Union County, IA unemployment 3.5% (Union, IA -0.3 pts, six months); 19 new housing units permitted in Union County, IA over twelve months, Union, IA up 850% from 2; Union, IA home prices +7.3% a year (Union, IA) over three years.

5,785 housing units in Union County, IA; 1,410 Union, IA renter households; 31% of Union, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Union, IA) half or more.

Union County, IA ranks #2,840 nationally on the opportunity index (Union, IA, among all ranked counties); Union, IA scores 24.2/100 and Union, IA sits #80 inside Iowa. Union, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Union, IA's primary driver is vacancy, Union, IA second driver bank institutional; Union, IA moved down 2 places. 97 days on market observed in Union, IA; 12.2% vacancy over 11 Union, IA ZIPs.

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

Union County, IA has 4 watched banks; 4 Union, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Union, IA footprints: Northwest Bank (3 branches, stress 64) in Union, IA; Iowa State Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 63) in Union, IA; Pcsb Bank (1 branch, stress 75) in Union, IA.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Union County, IA with 68 units; 67 Union, IA units are assisted, 2 Union, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

669 of the 5,785 housing units in Union, IA sit vacant. Union County, IA permitted 15 multifamily units in twelve months; Union, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 4 units in Union County, IA.