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

Brown County, IN, Indiana: 10 ZIP codes scored, Brown County, IN averaging 23/100 (low, Brown, IN), from 17 to 31. Brown County, IN is in its peak phase (Brown, IN confidence 24/100): Brown, IN home prices up 3.1% (Brown, IN) over twelve months. Brown County, IN lender headwind: 49/100.

Highest-scoring Brown County, IN ZIPs: 47201 (31/100), 47401 (28/100), 47468 (27/100), 46160 (25/100), 46181 (25/100), 46164 (22/100). Also scored in Brown County, IN: 47448, 47235, 47274, 47435.

Across Brown County, IN's scored ZIPs: median home value $267,467, household income $74,559, 13.6% vacancy, 10.0% poverty, 82% owner-occupied, median age 47.6.

Brown County, IN insurance distress 63/100 (#825 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Brown, IN; 4 federal disaster declarations in Brown County, IN since 2023 (2 flood); 3 Brown, IN NFIP flood claims, $183K paid; Brown, IN construction distress 53/100.

3 banks with 3 branches lend in Brown County, IN; Brown, IN weighted bank stress 63/100.

Brown County, IN unemployment 3.2% (Brown, IN -0.6 pts, six months); 70 new housing units permitted in Brown County, IN over twelve months, Brown, IN up 25% from 56; Brown, IN home prices +10.7% a year (Brown, IN) over three years.

8,577 housing units in Brown County, IN; 941 Brown, IN renter households; 55% of Brown, IN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 27% (Brown, IN) half or more.

Brown County, IN ranks #941 nationally on the opportunity index (Brown, IN, among all ranked counties); Brown, IN scores 31.4/100 and Brown, IN sits #24 inside Indiana. Brown, IN is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Brown, IN's primary driver is vacancy, Brown, IN second driver construction; Brown, IN moved up 443 places. 18 short-sale listings across Brown, IN; 84 days on market observed in Brown, IN; 14.8% vacancy over 10 Brown, IN ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Brown County, IN. The metro area reading for Brown, IN (Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN): 0.9% ninety-plus days late; Brown, IN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.3% (Brown, IN, December 2025 data); Indiana overall 1.0%.

Brown County, IN has 1 watched bank; 1 Brown, IN bank sits in an elevated band. Brown, IN footprints: Peoples State Bank (1 branch, stress 63) in Brown, IN.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Brown County, IN with 194 units.

1,796 of the 8,577 housing units in Brown, IN sit vacant. Brown County, IN permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Brown, IN's one-to-four unit structures added 70 units in Brown County, IN.