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

Webster County, IA, Iowa: 22 ZIP codes scored, Webster County, IA averaging 13/100 (minimal, Webster, IA), from 10 to 22. Webster County, IA is in its peak phase (Webster, IA confidence 21/100): Webster, IA home prices up 2.7% (Webster, IA) over twelve months. Webster County, IA lender headwind: 17/100.

Highest-scoring Webster County, IA ZIPs: 50595 (22/100), 50249 (20/100), 50538 (18/100), 50563 (18/100), 50586 (18/100), 50533 (17/100). Also scored in Webster County, IA: 50548, 50591, 50516, 50501, 50518, 50521, 50523, 50524, 50530, 50532.

Across Webster County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $148,220, household income $68,240, 12.5% vacancy, 10.9% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 41.5.

Webster County, IA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,708 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Webster, IA; Webster, IA construction distress 2/100.

8 banks with 13 branches lend in Webster County, IA; Webster, IA weighted bank stress 49/100, highest 75/100 in Webster, IA.

Webster County, IA unemployment 3.8% (Webster, IA +0.2 pts, six months); 99 new housing units permitted in Webster County, IA over twelve months, Webster, IA up 254% from 28; Webster, IA home prices +6.0% a year (Webster, IA) over three years.

17,082 housing units in Webster County, IA; 4,679 Webster, IA renter households; 34% of Webster, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Webster, IA) half or more.

Webster County, IA ranks #2,784 nationally on the opportunity index (Webster, IA, among all ranked counties); Webster, IA scores 24.5/100 and Webster, IA sits #76 inside Iowa. Webster, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Webster, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Webster, IA second driver vacancy; Webster, IA moved up 316 places. 36 days on market observed in Webster, IA; 8.3% vacancy over 22 Webster, IA ZIPs.

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

Webster County, IA has 6 watched banks; 6 Webster, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Webster, IA footprints: Security Savings Bank (4 branches, stress 30) in Webster, IA; Heartland Bank (2 branches, stress 35) in Webster, IA; Availa Bank (1 branch, stress 75) in Webster, IA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Webster County, IA with 72 units; 72 Webster, IA units are assisted, 1 Webster, IA properties under project-based Section 8.

1,707 of the 17,082 housing units in Webster, IA sit vacant. Webster County, IA permitted 65 multifamily units in twelve months; Webster, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 34 units in Webster County, IA.