Van Buren County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Van Buren County, IA, Iowa: 13 ZIP codes scored, Van Buren County, IA averaging 10/100 (minimal, Van Buren, IA), from 5 to 15. Van Buren County, IA is in its peak phase (Van Buren, IA confidence 28/100): Van Buren, IA home prices up 2.5% (Van Buren, IA) over twelve months. Van Buren County, IA lender headwind: 0/100.
Highest-scoring Van Buren County, IA ZIPs: 52535 (15/100), 52554 (14/100), 52567 (14/100), 52651 (13/100), 52542 (10/100), 52551 (10/100). Also scored in Van Buren County, IA: 52565, 52588, 52620, 52570, 52630, 52626, 52573.
Across Van Buren County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $128,550, household income $62,900, 20.0% vacancy, 16.2% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 46.2.
Van Buren County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,705 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Van Buren, IA; Van Buren, IA construction distress 51/100.
5 banks with 9 branches lend in Van Buren County, IA; Van Buren, IA weighted bank stress 47/100, highest 55/100 in Van Buren, IA.
Van Buren County, IA unemployment 3.2% (Van Buren, IA -0.2 pts, six months); 2 new housing units permitted in Van Buren County, IA over twelve months, Van Buren, IA up 0% from 2.
3,490 housing units in Van Buren County, IA; 491 Van Buren, IA renter households; 30% of Van Buren, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 6% (Van Buren, IA) half or more.
Van Buren County, IA ranks #1,891 nationally on the opportunity index (Van Buren, IA, among all ranked counties); Van Buren, IA scores 28.1/100 and Van Buren, IA sits #39 inside Iowa. Van Buren, IA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Van Buren, IA's primary driver is vacancy, Van Buren, IA second driver bank institutional; Van Buren, IA moved down 221 places. 2 short-sale listings across Van Buren, IA; 3 days on market observed in Van Buren, IA; 17.4% vacancy over 13 Van Buren, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Van Buren County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Van Buren, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Van Buren, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Van Buren, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Van Buren County, IA has 5 watched banks; 5 Van Buren, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Van Buren, IA footprints: State Central Bank (3 branches, stress 35) in Van Buren, IA; Libertyville Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 55) in Van Buren, IA; First Iowa State Bank (2 branches, stress 55) in Van Buren, IA.
594 of the 3,490 housing units in Van Buren, IA sit vacant. Van Buren County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Van Buren, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 2 units in Van Buren County, IA.