Cherokee County, KS: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Cherokee County, KS, Kansas: 13 ZIP codes scored, Cherokee County, KS averaging 19/100 (low, Cherokee, KS), from 10 to 21. Cherokee County, KS is in its peak phase (Cherokee, KS confidence 18/100): Cherokee, KS home prices up 2.0% (Cherokee, KS) over twelve months, 1.5% under their peak. Cherokee County, KS lender headwind: 37/100.

Highest-scoring Cherokee County, KS ZIPs: 66724 (21/100), 66762 (21/100), 66713 (20/100), 66725 (20/100), 66739 (20/100), 66753 (20/100). Also scored in Cherokee County, KS: 66770, 66773, 66778, 66781, 66782, 67336, 67356.

Across Cherokee County, KS's scored ZIPs: median home value $101,958, household income $51,930, 17.8% vacancy, 14.5% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 43.3.

Cherokee County, KS insurance distress 70/100 (#618 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Cherokee, KS; 8 federal disaster declarations in Cherokee County, KS since 2023; 1 Cherokee, KS NFIP flood claims, $120K paid; Cherokee, KS construction distress 1/100.

7 banks with 9 branches lend in Cherokee County, KS; Cherokee, KS weighted bank stress 54/100, highest 74/100 in Cherokee, KS.

Cherokee County, KS unemployment 4.6% (Cherokee, KS +0.3 pts, six months); 22 new housing units permitted in Cherokee County, KS over twelve months, Cherokee, KS up 120% from 10; Cherokee, KS home prices +10.5% a year (Cherokee, KS) over three years.

9,129 housing units in Cherokee County, KS; 2,131 Cherokee, KS renter households; 37% of Cherokee, KS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Cherokee, KS) half or more.

Cherokee County, KS ranks #620 nationally on the opportunity index (Cherokee, KS, among all ranked counties); Cherokee, KS scores 32.8/100 and Cherokee, KS sits #15 inside Kansas. Cherokee, KS is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Cherokee, KS's primary driver is vacancy, Cherokee, KS second driver bank institutional; Cherokee, KS moved up 1,145 places. 5 short-sale listings across Cherokee, KS; 49 days on market observed in Cherokee, KS; 14.3% vacancy over 13 Cherokee, KS ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Cherokee County, KS. The metro area reading for Cherokee, KS (Joplin, MO-KS): 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Cherokee, KS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.5% (Cherokee, KS, December 2025 data); Kansas overall 0.8%.

Cherokee County, KS has 5 watched banks; 5 Cherokee, KS banks sit in an elevated band. Cherokee, KS footprints: American Bk Baxter Springs (3 branches, stress 62) in Cherokee, KS; Labette Bank (1 branch, stress 59) in Cherokee, KS; Exchange State Bank (1 branch, stress 53) in Cherokee, KS.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Cherokee County, KS with 35 units; 33 Cherokee, KS units are assisted, 2 Cherokee, KS properties under project-based Section 8.

1,242 of the 9,129 housing units in Cherokee, KS sit vacant. Cherokee County, KS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Cherokee, KS's one-to-four unit structures added 22 units in Cherokee County, KS.