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

Seward County, KS, Kansas: 6 ZIP codes scored, Seward County, KS averaging 18/100 (low, Seward, KS), from 17 to 19. Seward County, KS is in its peak phase (Seward, KS confidence 23/100): Seward, KS home prices up 3.5% (Seward, KS) over twelve months. Seward County, KS lender headwind: 67/100.

Highest-scoring Seward County, KS ZIPs: 67869 (19/100), 67952 (19/100), 67859 (17/100), 67870 (17/100), 67877 (17/100), 67901 (17/100).

Across Seward County, KS's scored ZIPs: median home value $147,117, household income $64,309, 18.9% vacancy, 10.6% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 36.5.

Seward County, KS insurance distress 0/100 (#2,718 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Seward, KS; Seward, KS construction distress 95/100.

5 banks with 8 branches lend in Seward County, KS; Seward, KS weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 77/100 in Seward, KS.

Seward County, KS unemployment 4.2% (Seward, KS +0.3 pts, six months); 13 new housing units permitted in Seward County, KS over twelve months, Seward, KS down 43% from 23; Seward, KS home prices +5.1% a year (Seward, KS) over three years.

8,308 housing units in Seward County, KS; 2,794 Seward, KS renter households; 34% of Seward, KS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Seward, KS) half or more.

Seward County, KS ranks #143 nationally on the opportunity index (Seward, KS, among all ranked counties); Seward, KS scores 36.4/100 and Seward, KS sits #2 inside Kansas. Seward, KS is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Seward, KS's primary driver is construction, Seward, KS second driver vacancy; Seward, KS moved down 30 places. 2 short-sale listings across Seward, KS; 106 days on market observed in Seward, KS; 13.4% vacancy over 6 Seward, KS ZIPs.

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

Seward County, KS has 3 watched banks; 3 Seward, KS banks sit in an elevated band. Seward, KS footprints: Equity Bank (3 branches, stress 57) in Seward, KS; Community Bank (2 branches, stress 63) in Seward, KS; Bank Of The Plains (1 branch, stress 56) in Seward, KS.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Seward County, KS with 155 units; 114 Seward, KS units are assisted, 1 Seward, KS properties under project-based Section 8.

1,051 of the 8,308 housing units in Seward, KS sit vacant. Seward County, KS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Seward, KS's one-to-four unit structures added 13 units in Seward County, KS.