Douglas County, KS: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Douglas County, KS, Kansas: 12 ZIP codes scored, Douglas County, KS averaging 20/100 (low, Douglas, KS), from 16 to 25. Douglas County, KS is in its peak phase (Douglas, KS confidence 39/100): Douglas, KS home prices up 4.5% (Douglas, KS) over twelve months. Douglas County, KS lender headwind: 41/100.
Highest-scoring Douglas County, KS ZIPs: 66409 (25/100), 66524 (22/100), 66006 (21/100), 66045 (21/100), 66046 (21/100), 66047 (21/100). Also scored in Douglas County, KS: 66049, 66050, 66092, 66044, 66021, 66025.
Across Douglas County, KS's scored ZIPs: median home value $281,809, household income $74,241, 9.4% vacancy, 17.5% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 37.4.
Douglas County, KS insurance distress 7/100 (#2,416 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Douglas, KS; 2 Douglas, KS NFIP flood claims; Douglas, KS construction distress 66/100.
22 banks with 44 branches lend in Douglas County, KS; Douglas, KS weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 76/100 in Douglas, KS.
Douglas County, KS unemployment 4.3% (Douglas, KS +0.4 pts, six months); 272 new housing units permitted in Douglas County, KS over twelve months, Douglas, KS down 24% from 357; Douglas, KS home prices +8.5% a year (Douglas, KS) over three years.
53,675 housing units in Douglas County, KS; 25,214 Douglas, KS renter households; 49% of Douglas, KS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 26% (Douglas, KS) half or more.
Douglas County, KS ranks #2,543 nationally on the opportunity index (Douglas, KS, among all ranked counties); Douglas, KS scores 25.7/100 and Douglas, KS sits #86 inside Kansas. Douglas, KS is in the weak opportunity phase; Douglas, KS's primary driver is construction, Douglas, KS second driver bank institutional; Douglas, KS moved up 201 places. 53 short-sale listings across Douglas, KS; 52 days on market observed in Douglas, KS; 6.6% vacancy over 12 Douglas, KS ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Douglas County, KS. The non-metro area reading for Douglas, KS: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Douglas, KS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.4% (Douglas, KS, December 2025 data); Kansas overall 0.8%.
Douglas County, KS has 14 watched banks; 14 Douglas, KS banks sit in an elevated band. Douglas, KS footprints: Capitol Federal Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 72) in Douglas, KS; Central National Bank (3 branches, stress 64) in Douglas, KS; Mid-America Bank (3 branches, stress 56) in Douglas, KS.
HUD lists 9 assisted multifamily properties in Douglas County, KS with 629 units; 98 Douglas, KS units are assisted, 3 Douglas, KS properties under project-based Section 8.
3,269 of the 53,675 housing units in Douglas, KS sit vacant. Douglas County, KS permitted 50 multifamily units in twelve months; Douglas, KS's one-to-four unit structures added 222 units in Douglas County, KS.