Ottawa County, KS: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Ottawa County, KS, Kansas: 11 ZIP codes scored, Ottawa County, KS averaging 16/100 (low, Ottawa, KS), from 6 to 28. Ottawa County, KS is in its peak phase (Ottawa, KS confidence 23/100): Ottawa, KS home prices up 3.5% (Ottawa, KS) over twelve months. Ottawa County, KS lender headwind: 38/100.
Highest-scoring Ottawa County, KS ZIPs: 67401 (28/100), 67470 (28/100), 67484 (24/100), 67480 (22/100), 67422 (15/100), 67467 (15/100). Also scored in Ottawa County, KS: 67436, 67458, 67466, 67432, 67445.
Across Ottawa County, KS's scored ZIPs: median home value $150,855, household income $63,892, 14.4% vacancy, 14.1% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 43.2.
Ottawa County, KS insurance distress 65/100 (#780 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Ottawa, KS; 8 federal disaster declarations in Ottawa County, KS since 2023; 3 Ottawa, KS NFIP flood claims, $47K paid; Ottawa, KS construction distress 24/100.
3 banks with 5 branches lend in Ottawa County, KS; Ottawa, KS weighted bank stress 55/100, highest 68/100 in Ottawa, KS.
Ottawa County, KS unemployment 3.7% (Ottawa, KS +0.2 pts, six months); 12 new housing units permitted in Ottawa County, KS over twelve months, Ottawa, KS up 50% from 8; Ottawa, KS home prices +6.1% a year (Ottawa, KS) over three years.
2,693 housing units in Ottawa County, KS; 522 Ottawa, KS renter households; 29% of Ottawa, KS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Ottawa, KS) half or more.
Ottawa County, KS ranks #2,664 nationally on the opportunity index (Ottawa, KS, among all ranked counties); Ottawa, KS scores 25.1/100 and Ottawa, KS sits #91 inside Kansas. Ottawa, KS is in the weak opportunity phase; Ottawa, KS's primary driver is bank institutional, Ottawa, KS second driver vacancy; Ottawa, KS moved down 550 places. 2 short-sale listings across Ottawa, KS; 28 days on market observed in Ottawa, KS; 9.5% vacancy over 11 Ottawa, KS ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Ottawa County, KS. The non-metro area reading for Ottawa, KS: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Ottawa, KS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.4% (Ottawa, KS, December 2025 data); Kansas overall 0.8%.
Ottawa County, KS has 3 watched banks; 3 Ottawa, KS banks sit in an elevated band. Ottawa, KS footprints: Citizens St B&T Ellsworth Ks (2 branches, stress 68) in Ottawa, KS; Bennington State Bank (2 branches, stress 43) in Ottawa, KS; Bank Of Tescott (1 branch, stress 54) in Ottawa, KS.
285 of the 2,693 housing units in Ottawa, KS sit vacant. Ottawa County, KS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Ottawa, KS's one-to-four unit structures added 12 units in Ottawa County, KS.