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

Hancock County, IN, Indiana: 16 ZIP codes scored, Hancock County, IN averaging 29/100 (low, Hancock, IN), from 23 to 36. Hancock County, IN is in its peak phase (Hancock, IN confidence 24/100): Hancock, IN home prices up 3.1% (Hancock, IN) over twelve months. Hancock County, IN lender headwind: 22/100.

Highest-scoring Hancock County, IN ZIPs: 46236 (36/100), 46239 (36/100), 46229 (35/100), 46056 (30/100), 46064 (30/100), 46117 (27/100). Also scored in Hancock County, IN: 46130, 46140, 46154, 46161, 46163, 46186, 46040, 46055, 47384, 46115.

Across Hancock County, IN's scored ZIPs: median home value $269,227, household income $95,991, 4.1% vacancy, 7.7% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.

Hancock County, IN insurance distress 65/100 (#786 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Hancock, IN; 6 federal disaster declarations in Hancock County, IN since 2023 (4 flood); 2 Hancock, IN NFIP flood claims, $14K paid; Hancock, IN construction distress 58/100.

7 banks with 15 branches lend in Hancock County, IN; Hancock, IN weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 73/100 in Hancock, IN.

Hancock County, IN unemployment 3.0% (Hancock, IN -0.2 pts, six months); 1,043 new housing units permitted in Hancock County, IN over twelve months, Hancock, IN down 11% from 1,173; Hancock, IN home prices +9.4% a year (Hancock, IN) over three years.

34,370 housing units in Hancock County, IN; 6,582 Hancock, IN renter households; 39% of Hancock, IN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 12% (Hancock, IN) half or more.

Hancock County, IN ranks #1,944 nationally on the opportunity index (Hancock, IN, among all ranked counties); Hancock, IN scores 27.9/100 and Hancock, IN sits #63 inside Indiana. Hancock, IN is in the weak opportunity phase; Hancock, IN's primary driver is bank institutional, Hancock, IN second driver construction; Hancock, IN moved up 583 places. 28 short-sale listings across Hancock, IN; 109 days on market observed in Hancock, IN; 3.4% vacancy over 16 Hancock, IN ZIPs.

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

Hancock County, IN has 4 watched banks; 4 Hancock, IN banks sit in an elevated band. Hancock, IN footprints: Greenfield Banking Co (6 branches, stress 44) in Hancock, IN; First Merchants Bank (2 branches, stress 65) in Hancock, IN; Star Financial Bank (1 branch, stress 73) in Hancock, IN.

HUD lists 8 assisted multifamily properties in Hancock County, IN with 1,006 units; 80 Hancock, IN units are assisted, 1 Hancock, IN properties under project-based Section 8.

896 of the 34,370 housing units in Hancock, IN sit vacant. Hancock County, IN permitted 156 multifamily units in twelve months; Hancock, IN's one-to-four unit structures added 887 units in Hancock County, IN.