Rice County, KS: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Rice County, KS, Kansas: 13 ZIP codes scored, Rice County, KS averaging 14/100 (minimal, Rice, KS), from 10 to 22. Rice County, KS is in its peak phase (Rice, KS confidence 25/100): Rice, KS home prices up 2.9% (Rice, KS) over twelve months. Rice County, KS lender headwind: 55/100.
Highest-scoring Rice County, KS ZIPs: 67502 (22/100), 67525 (22/100), 67526 (19/100), 67579 (16/100), 67491 (13/100), 67546 (13/100). Also scored in Rice County, KS: 67444, 67512, 67427, 67457, 67524, 67554, 67573.
Across Rice County, KS's scored ZIPs: median home value $116,936, household income $70,016, 17.8% vacancy, 9.8% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 45.7.
Rice County, KS insurance distress 27/100 (#1,731 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Rice, KS; 4 federal disaster declarations in Rice County, KS since 2023; Rice, KS construction distress 6/100.
4 banks with 8 branches lend in Rice County, KS; Rice, KS weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 76/100 in Rice, KS.
Rice County, KS unemployment 4.2% (Rice, KS +0.3 pts, six months); 15 new housing units permitted in Rice County, KS over twelve months, Rice, KS up 67% from 9; Rice, KS home prices +9.4% a year (Rice, KS) over three years.
4,384 housing units in Rice County, KS; 845 Rice, KS renter households; 18% of Rice, KS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 6% (Rice, KS) half or more.
Rice County, KS ranks #2,330 nationally on the opportunity index (Rice, KS, among all ranked counties); Rice, KS scores 26.6/100 and Rice, KS sits #74 inside Kansas. Rice, KS is in the weak opportunity phase; Rice, KS's primary driver is vacancy, Rice, KS second driver bank institutional; Rice, KS moved down 527 places. 2 short-sale listings across Rice, KS; 74 days on market observed in Rice, KS; 15.3% vacancy over 13 Rice, KS ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Rice County, KS. The non-metro area reading for Rice, KS: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Rice, KS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.4% (Rice, KS, December 2025 data); Kansas overall 0.8%.
Rice County, KS has 4 watched banks; 4 Rice, KS banks sit in an elevated band. Rice, KS footprints: First Bank (3 branches, stress 64) in Rice, KS; Peoples Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 76) in Rice, KS; Lyons Federal Bank (2 branches, stress 56) in Rice, KS.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Rice County, KS with 16 units; 16 Rice, KS units are assisted, 1 Rice, KS properties under project-based Section 8.
670 of the 4,384 housing units in Rice, KS sit vacant. Rice County, KS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Rice, KS's one-to-four unit structures added 15 units in Rice County, KS.