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

Starke County, IN, Indiana: 11 ZIP codes scored, Starke County, IN averaging 17/100 (low, Starke, IN), from 14 to 21. Starke County, IN is in its expansion phase (Starke, IN confidence 30/100): Starke, IN home prices up 5.1% (Starke, IN) over twelve months. Starke County, IN lender headwind: 49/100.

Highest-scoring Starke County, IN ZIPs: 46532 (21/100), 46563 (21/100), 46511 (20/100), 46574 (19/100), 46366 (16/100), 46374 (16/100). Also scored in Starke County, IN: 46531, 46534, 46960, 46968, 46996.

Across Starke County, IN's scored ZIPs: median home value $165,364, household income $65,516, 19.4% vacancy, 12.6% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 43.3.

Starke County, IN insurance distress 47/100 (#1,169 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Starke, IN; 6 federal disaster declarations in Starke County, IN since 2023 (4 flood); 1 Starke, IN NFIP flood claims; Starke, IN construction distress 34/100.

5 banks with 6 branches lend in Starke County, IN; Starke, IN weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 70/100 in Starke, IN.

Starke County, IN unemployment 4.1% (Starke, IN -1.2 pts, six months); 68 new housing units permitted in Starke County, IN over twelve months, Starke, IN up 17% from 58; Starke, IN home prices +11.1% a year (Starke, IN) over three years.

11,273 housing units in Starke County, IN; 1,424 Starke, IN renter households; 34% of Starke, IN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 14% (Starke, IN) half or more.

Starke County, IN ranks #1,017 nationally on the opportunity index (Starke, IN, among all ranked counties); Starke, IN scores 31.1/100 and Starke, IN sits #28 inside Indiana. Starke, IN is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Starke, IN's primary driver is vacancy, Starke, IN second driver bank institutional; Starke, IN moved up 108 places. 5 short-sale listings across Starke, IN; 75 days on market observed in Starke, IN; 19.9% vacancy over 11 Starke, IN ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Starke County, IN. The non-metro area reading for Starke, IN: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Starke, IN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.1% (Starke, IN, December 2025 data); Indiana overall 1.0%.

Starke County, IN has 4 watched banks; 4 Starke, IN banks sit in an elevated band. Starke, IN footprints: First Farmers Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 58) in Starke, IN; Demotte State Bank (1 branch, stress 70) in Starke, IN; First Nb Of Monterey (1 branch, stress 64) in Starke, IN.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Starke County, IN with 24 units; 24 Starke, IN units are assisted.

2,290 of the 11,273 housing units in Starke, IN sit vacant. Starke County, IN permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Starke, IN's one-to-four unit structures added 68 units in Starke County, IN.