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

Russell County, KS, Kansas: 11 ZIP codes scored, Russell County, KS averaging 11/100 (minimal, Russell, KS), from 8 to 18. Russell County, KS is in its peak phase (Russell, KS confidence 25/100): Russell, KS home prices up 2.9% (Russell, KS) over twelve months. Russell County, KS lender headwind: 38/100.

Highest-scoring Russell County, KS ZIPs: 67640 (18/100), 67651 (18/100), 67481 (12/100), 67665 (10/100), 67626 (9/100), 67634 (9/100). Also scored in Russell County, KS: 67648, 67649, 67658, 67673, 67490.

Across Russell County, KS's scored ZIPs: median home value $134,720, household income $56,508, 25.2% vacancy, 9.5% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 54.2.

Russell County, KS insurance distress 35/100 (#1,464 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Russell, KS; 8 federal disaster declarations in Russell County, KS since 2023; Russell, KS construction distress 7/100.

6 banks with 6 branches lend in Russell County, KS; Russell, KS weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 76/100 in Russell, KS.

Russell County, KS unemployment 4.4% (Russell, KS +0.6 pts, six months); 20 new housing units permitted in Russell County, KS over twelve months, Russell, KS up 233% from 6.

3,674 housing units in Russell County, KS; 730 Russell, KS renter households; 30% of Russell, KS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 14% (Russell, KS) half or more.

Russell County, KS ranks #1,885 nationally on the opportunity index (Russell, KS, among all ranked counties); Russell, KS scores 28.1/100 and Russell, KS sits #55 inside Kansas. Russell, KS is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Russell, KS's primary driver is vacancy, Russell, KS second driver bank institutional; Russell, KS moved down 53 places. 14.5% vacancy over 11 Russell, KS ZIPs.

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

Russell County, KS has 4 watched banks; 4 Russell, KS banks sit in an elevated band. Russell, KS footprints: Southwind Bank (1 branch, stress 76) in Russell, KS; Wilson State Bank (1 branch, stress 71) in Russell, KS; Bennington State Bank (1 branch, stress 43) in Russell, KS.

574 of the 3,674 housing units in Russell, KS sit vacant. Russell County, KS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Russell, KS's one-to-four unit structures added 20 units in Russell County, KS.