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

Ellis County, KS, Kansas: 12 ZIP codes scored, Ellis County, KS averaging 20/100 (low, Ellis, KS), from 16 to 21. Ellis County, KS is in its peak phase (Ellis, KS confidence 23/100): Ellis, KS home prices up 3.5% (Ellis, KS) over twelve months. Ellis County, KS lender headwind: 47/100.

Highest-scoring Ellis County, KS ZIPs: 67601 (21/100), 67627 (21/100), 67660 (21/100), 67667 (21/100), 67671 (21/100), 67674 (21/100). Also scored in Ellis County, KS: 67565, 67640, 67556, 67651, 67663, 67637.

Across Ellis County, KS's scored ZIPs: median home value $142,883, household income $61,377, 15.8% vacancy, 17.3% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 38.8.

Ellis County, KS insurance distress 21/100 (#2,130 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Ellis, KS; 2 federal disaster declarations in Ellis County, KS since 2023; Ellis, KS construction distress 95/100.

10 banks with 14 branches lend in Ellis County, KS; Ellis, KS weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 89/100 in Ellis, KS.

Ellis County, KS unemployment 3.6% (Ellis, KS +0.4 pts, six months); 55 new housing units permitted in Ellis County, KS over twelve months, Ellis, KS down 47% from 103; Ellis, KS home prices +7.0% a year (Ellis, KS) over three years.

13,287 housing units in Ellis County, KS; 4,578 Ellis, KS renter households; 50% of Ellis, KS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Ellis, KS) half or more.

Ellis County, KS ranks #2,620 nationally on the opportunity index (Ellis, KS, among all ranked counties); Ellis, KS scores 25.3/100 and Ellis, KS sits #90 inside Kansas. Ellis, KS is in the weak opportunity phase; Ellis, KS's primary driver is construction, Ellis, KS second driver bank institutional; Ellis, KS moved down 688 places. 126 days on market observed in Ellis, KS; 8.2% vacancy over 12 Ellis, KS ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Ellis County, KS. The non-metro area reading for Ellis, KS: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Ellis, KS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.4% (Ellis, KS, December 2025 data); Kansas overall 0.8%.

Ellis County, KS has 8 watched banks; 8 Ellis, KS banks sit in an elevated band. Ellis, KS footprints: Golden Belt Bank Fsa (2 branches, stress 67) in Ellis, KS; Equity Bank (2 branches, stress 57) in Ellis, KS; Astra Bank (1 branch, stress 89) in Ellis, KS.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Ellis County, KS with 90 units; 90 Ellis, KS units are assisted, 1 Ellis, KS properties under project-based Section 8.

1,036 of the 13,287 housing units in Ellis, KS sit vacant. Ellis County, KS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Ellis, KS's one-to-four unit structures added 55 units in Ellis County, KS.