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

Wapello County, IA, Iowa: 12 ZIP codes scored, Wapello County, IA averaging 13/100 (minimal, Wapello, IA), from 9 to 14. Wapello County, IA is in its peak phase (Wapello, IA confidence 21/100): Wapello, IA home prices up 2.7% (Wapello, IA) over twelve months. Wapello County, IA lender headwind: 40/100.

Highest-scoring Wapello County, IA ZIPs: 52501 (14/100), 52530 (14/100), 52533 (14/100), 52548 (14/100), 52554 (14/100), 52566 (14/100). Also scored in Wapello County, IA: 52531, 52536, 52553, 52563, 52537, 52552.

Across Wapello County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $137,083, household income $65,383, 9.1% vacancy, 9.1% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 43.4.

Wapello County, IA insurance distress 5/100 (#2,448 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Wapello, IA; 1 Wapello, IA NFIP flood claims; Wapello, IA construction distress 37/100.

7 banks with 8 branches lend in Wapello County, IA; Wapello, IA weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 73/100 in Wapello, IA.

Wapello County, IA unemployment 4.6% (Wapello, IA +0.7 pts, six months); 54 new housing units permitted in Wapello County, IA over twelve months, Wapello, IA up 17% from 46; Wapello, IA home prices +9.8% a year (Wapello, IA) over three years.

15,730 housing units in Wapello County, IA; 4,587 Wapello, IA renter households; 43% of Wapello, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Wapello, IA) half or more.

Wapello County, IA ranks #1,538 nationally on the opportunity index (Wapello, IA, among all ranked counties); Wapello, IA scores 29.3/100 and Wapello, IA sits #23 inside Iowa. Wapello, IA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Wapello, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Wapello, IA second driver vacancy; Wapello, IA moved up 706 places. 10 short-sale listings across Wapello, IA; 82 days on market observed in Wapello, IA; 10.7% vacancy over 12 Wapello, IA ZIPs.

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

Wapello County, IA has 5 watched banks; 5 Wapello, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Wapello, IA footprints: South Ottumwa Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 50) in Wapello, IA; Iowa St B&T Co Fairfld Ia (1 branch, stress 73) in Wapello, IA; Libertyville Savings Bank (1 branch, stress 55) in Wapello, IA.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Wapello County, IA with 90 units; 90 Wapello, IA units are assisted, 2 Wapello, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

1,733 of the 15,730 housing units in Wapello, IA sit vacant. Wapello County, IA permitted 29 multifamily units in twelve months; Wapello, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 25 units in Wapello County, IA.