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

Wayne County, IA, Iowa: 13 ZIP codes scored, Wayne County, IA averaging 10/100 (minimal, Wayne, IA), from 5 to 16. Wayne County, IA is in its peak phase (Wayne, IA confidence 28/100): Wayne, IA home prices up 2.5% (Wayne, IA) over twelve months. Wayne County, IA lender headwind: 24/100.

Highest-scoring Wayne County, IA ZIPs: 52581 (16/100), 52569 (12/100), 50008 (11/100), 50052 (11/100), 50060 (11/100), 50147 (11/100). Also scored in Wayne County, IA: 50165, 52583, 52590, 50123, 50238, 50068, 50049.

Across Wayne County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $116,092, household income $62,815, 19.8% vacancy, 14.2% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 46.9.

Wayne County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,707 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Wayne, IA; Wayne, IA construction distress 71/100.

4 banks with 5 branches lend in Wayne County, IA; Wayne, IA weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 81/100 in Wayne, IA.

Wayne County, IA unemployment 3.1% (Wayne, IA -0.4 pts, six months); 45 new housing units permitted in Wayne County, IA over twelve months, Wayne, IA down 22% from 58; Wayne, IA home prices +8.8% a year (Wayne, IA) over three years.

3,019 housing units in Wayne County, IA; 509 Wayne, IA renter households; 29% of Wayne, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Wayne, IA) half or more.

Wayne County, IA ranks #665 nationally on the opportunity index (Wayne, IA, among all ranked counties); Wayne, IA scores 32.6/100 and Wayne, IA sits #7 inside Iowa. Wayne, IA is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Wayne, IA's primary driver is vacancy, Wayne, IA second driver construction; Wayne, IA moved up 583 places. 5 short-sale listings across Wayne, IA; 38 days on market observed in Wayne, IA; 15.4% vacancy over 13 Wayne, IA ZIPs.

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

Wayne County, IA has 2 watched banks; 2 Wayne, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Wayne, IA footprints: Peoples Savings Bank (1 branch, stress 81) in Wayne, IA; Corydon State Bank (1 branch, stress 9) in Wayne, IA.

454 of the 3,019 housing units in Wayne, IA sit vacant. Wayne County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Wayne, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 45 units in Wayne County, IA.