Benton County, IN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Benton County, IN, Indiana: 11 ZIP codes scored, Benton County, IN averaging 8/100 (minimal, Benton, IN), from 1 to 24. Benton County, IN is in its peak phase (Benton, IN confidence 23/100): Benton, IN home prices up 3.4% (Benton, IN) over twelve months. Benton County, IN lender headwind: 47/100.

Highest-scoring Benton County, IN ZIPs: 47995 (24/100), 47970 (14/100), 47948 (13/100), 47977 (12/100), 47975 (9/100), 47917 (6/100). Also scored in Benton County, IN: 47921, 47942, 47944, 47971, 47986.

Across Benton County, IN's scored ZIPs: median home value $151,490, household income $67,252, 9.2% vacancy, 13.6% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.

Benton County, IN insurance distress 0/100 (#2,664 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Benton, IN; 2 federal disaster declarations in Benton County, IN since 2023; Benton, IN construction distress 8/100.

3 banks with 5 branches lend in Benton County, IN; Benton, IN weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 80/100 in Benton, IN.

Benton County, IN unemployment 2.8% (Benton, IN -0.8 pts, six months); 5 new housing units permitted in Benton County, IN over twelve months; Benton, IN home prices +11.1% a year (Benton, IN) over three years.

3,762 housing units in Benton County, IN; 675 Benton, IN renter households; 35% of Benton, IN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Benton, IN) half or more.

Benton County, IN ranks #2,888 nationally on the opportunity index (Benton, IN, among all ranked counties); Benton, IN scores 23.9/100 and Benton, IN sits #85 inside Indiana. Benton, IN is in the weak opportunity phase; Benton, IN's primary driver is bank institutional, Benton, IN second driver vacancy. 88 days on market observed in Benton, IN; 8.6% vacancy over 11 Benton, IN ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Benton County, IN. The metro area reading for Benton, IN (Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN): 0.8% ninety-plus days late; Benton, IN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.7% (Benton, IN, December 2025 data); Indiana overall 1.0%.

Benton County, IN has 3 watched banks; 3 Benton, IN banks sit in an elevated band. Benton, IN footprints: Farmers&Merchants Bank (2 branches, stress 80) in Benton, IN; Alliance Bank (2 branches, stress 43) in Benton, IN; Fowler State Bank (1 branch, stress 49) in Benton, IN.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Benton County, IN with 61 units.

308 of the 3,762 housing units in Benton, IN sit vacant. Benton County, IN permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Benton, IN's one-to-four unit structures added 5 units in Benton County, IN.