Benton County, MN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Benton County, MN, Minnesota: 9 ZIP codes scored, Benton County, MN averaging 13/100 (minimal, Benton, MN), from 8 to 23. Benton County, MN is in its peak phase (Benton, MN confidence 22/100): Benton, MN home prices up 3.2% (Benton, MN) over twelve months. Benton County, MN lender headwind: 52/100.

Highest-scoring Benton County, MN ZIPs: 56377 (23/100), 56373 (19/100), 56304 (15/100), 56367 (13/100), 55371 (10/100), 56330 (10/100). Also scored in Benton County, MN: 56329, 56357, 56379.

Across Benton County, MN's scored ZIPs: median home value $288,544, household income $79,402, 5.3% vacancy, 7.4% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 37.0.

Benton County, MN insurance distress 0/100 (#2,747 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Benton, MN; Benton, MN construction distress 14/100.

10 banks with 12 branches lend in Benton County, MN; Benton, MN weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 76/100 in Benton, MN.

Benton County, MN unemployment 5.2% (Benton, MN -1.7 pts, six months); 150 new housing units permitted in Benton County, MN over twelve months, Benton, MN up 121% from 68; Benton, MN home prices +7.8% a year (Benton, MN) over three years.

17,608 housing units in Benton County, MN; 5,302 Benton, MN renter households; 33% of Benton, MN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Benton, MN) half or more.

Benton County, MN ranks #3,217 nationally on the opportunity index (Benton, MN, among all ranked counties); Benton, MN scores 18.4/100 and Benton, MN sits #86 inside Minnesota. Benton, MN is in the weak opportunity phase; Benton, MN's primary driver is bank institutional, Benton, MN second driver vacancy; Benton, MN moved down 40 places. 10 short-sale listings across Benton, MN; 71 days on market observed in Benton, MN; 5.8% vacancy over 9 Benton, MN ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Benton County, MN. The metro area reading for Benton, MN (St. Cloud, MN): 0.6% ninety-plus days late; Benton, MN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.8% (Benton, MN, December 2025 data); Minnesota overall 0.6%.

Benton County, MN has 6 watched banks; 6 Benton, MN banks sit in an elevated band. Benton, MN footprints: Frandsen Bank&Trust (2 branches, stress 48) in Benton, MN; Farmers&Merchants Stb Pierz (1 branch, stress 66) in Benton, MN; Falcon National Bank (1 branch, stress 64) in Benton, MN.

HUD lists 6 assisted multifamily properties in Benton County, MN with 347 units; 216 Benton, MN units are assisted, 2 Benton, MN properties under project-based Section 8.

889 of the 17,608 housing units in Benton, MN sit vacant. Benton County, MN permitted 89 multifamily units in twelve months; Benton, MN's one-to-four unit structures added 61 units in Benton County, MN.