Worth County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Worth County, IA, Iowa: 10 ZIP codes scored, Worth County, IA averaging 13/100 (minimal, Worth, IA), from 8 to 22. Worth County, IA is in its peak phase (Worth, IA confidence 21/100): Worth, IA home prices up 2.7% (Worth, IA) over twelve months. Worth County, IA lender headwind: 95/100.
Highest-scoring Worth County, IA ZIPs: 50472 (22/100), 50464 (20/100), 50434 (19/100), 50450 (19/100), 50444 (14/100), 50440 (8/100). Also scored in Worth County, IA: 50446, 50448, 50456, 50459.
Across Worth County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $153,389, household income $78,551, 8.2% vacancy, 9.2% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 47.5.
Worth County, IA insurance distress 30/100 (#1,591 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Worth, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Worth County, IA since 2023; 1 Worth, IA NFIP flood claims; Worth, IA construction distress 27/100.
3 banks with 5 branches lend in Worth County, IA; Worth, IA weighted bank stress 73/100, highest 78/100 in Worth, IA.
Worth County, IA unemployment 2.8% (Worth, IA -0.3 pts, six months); 5 new housing units permitted in Worth County, IA over twelve months, Worth, IA up 400% from 1; Worth, IA home prices +8.2% a year (Worth, IA) over three years.
3,474 housing units in Worth County, IA; 600 Worth, IA renter households; 20% of Worth, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 10% (Worth, IA) half or more.
Worth County, IA ranks #3,112 nationally on the opportunity index (Worth, IA, among all ranked counties); Worth, IA scores 22.0/100 and Worth, IA sits #94 inside Iowa. Worth, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Worth, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Worth, IA second driver vacancy; Worth, IA moved down 517 places. 1 short-sale listings across Worth, IA; 13 days on market observed in Worth, IA; 8.0% vacancy over 10 Worth, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Worth County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Worth, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Worth, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Worth, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Worth County, IA has 3 watched banks; 3 Worth, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Worth, IA footprints: Farmers State Bank (3 branches, stress 70) in Worth, IA; First Security Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 78) in Worth, IA; Nsb Bank (1 branch, stress 78) in Worth, IA.
296 of the 3,474 housing units in Worth, IA sit vacant. Worth County, IA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Worth, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 5 units in Worth County, IA.