Elk County, KS: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Elk County, KS, Kansas: 10 ZIP codes scored, Elk County, KS averaging 13/100 (minimal, Elk, KS), from 8 to 21. Elk County, KS is in its peak phase (Elk, KS confidence 25/100): Elk, KS home prices up 2.9% (Elk, KS) over twelve months. Elk County, KS lender headwind: 49/100.
Highest-scoring Elk County, KS ZIPs: 67137 (21/100), 67122 (20/100), 67047 (19/100), 66736 (17/100), 67344 (12/100), 67345 (8/100). Also scored in Elk County, KS: 67346, 67349, 67352, 67353.
Across Elk County, KS's scored ZIPs: median home value $75,044, household income $62,036, 31.8% vacancy, 13.2% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 49.7.
Elk County, KS insurance distress 27/100 (#1,723 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Elk, KS; 4 federal disaster declarations in Elk County, KS since 2023; Elk, KS construction distress 15/100.
2 banks with 4 branches lend in Elk County, KS; Elk, KS weighted bank stress 55/100, highest 63/100 in Elk, KS.
Elk County, KS unemployment 5.2% (Elk, KS +0.1 pts, six months).
1,491 housing units in Elk County, KS; 241 Elk, KS renter households; 32% of Elk, KS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Elk, KS) half or more.
Elk County, KS ranks #1,402 nationally on the opportunity index (Elk, KS, among all ranked counties); Elk, KS scores 29.8/100 and Elk, KS sits #44 inside Kansas. Elk, KS is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Elk, KS's primary driver is vacancy, Elk, KS second driver bank institutional; Elk, KS moved down 360 places. 3 short-sale listings across Elk, KS; 27 days on market observed in Elk, KS; 28.8% vacancy over 10 Elk, KS ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Elk County, KS. The non-metro area reading for Elk, KS: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Elk, KS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.4% (Elk, KS, December 2025 data); Kansas overall 0.8%.
Elk County, KS has 2 watched banks; 2 Elk, KS banks sit in an elevated band. Elk, KS footprints: Bank Of Commerce (2 branches, stress 63) in Elk, KS; Howard Stb Howard Kansas (2 branches, stress 47) in Elk, KS.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Elk County, KS with 7 units; 6 Elk, KS units are assisted, 1 Elk, KS properties under project-based Section 8.
492 of the 1,491 housing units in Elk, KS sit vacant.