Blue Earth County, MN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Blue Earth County, MN, Minnesota: 20 ZIP codes scored, Blue Earth County, MN averaging 21/100 (low, Blue Earth, MN), from 15 to 23. Blue Earth County, MN is in its peak phase (Blue Earth, MN confidence 29/100): Blue Earth, MN home prices up 0.7% (Blue Earth, MN) over twelve months, 1.2% under their peak. Blue Earth County, MN lender headwind: 71/100.

Highest-scoring Blue Earth County, MN ZIPs: 56001 (23/100), 56010 (23/100), 56024 (23/100), 56034 (23/100), 56037 (23/100), 56055 (23/100). Also scored in Blue Earth County, MN: 56065, 56080, 56090, 56050, 56063, 56041, 56073, 56078, 56003, 56062.

Across Blue Earth County, MN's scored ZIPs: median home value $227,340, household income $74,201, 8.7% vacancy, 7.6% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 40.8.

Blue Earth County, MN insurance distress 65/100 (#768 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Blue Earth, MN; 2 federal disaster declarations in Blue Earth County, MN since 2023 (2 flood); 17 Blue Earth, MN NFIP flood claims, $473K paid.

17 banks with 27 branches lend in Blue Earth County, MN; Blue Earth, MN weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 100/100 in Blue Earth, MN.

Blue Earth County, MN unemployment 4.1% (Blue Earth, MN -0.4 pts, six months); 502 new housing units permitted in Blue Earth County, MN over twelve months, Blue Earth, MN up 97% from 255; Blue Earth, MN home prices +7.0% a year (Blue Earth, MN) over three years.

29,864 housing units in Blue Earth County, MN; 10,396 Blue Earth, MN renter households; 44% of Blue Earth, MN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Blue Earth, MN) half or more.

Blue Earth County, MN ranks #2,935 nationally on the opportunity index (Blue Earth, MN, among all ranked counties); Blue Earth, MN scores 23.6/100 and Blue Earth, MN sits #68 inside Minnesota. Blue Earth, MN is in the weak opportunity phase; Blue Earth, MN's primary driver is bank institutional, Blue Earth, MN second driver vacancy; Blue Earth, MN moved down 10 places. 3 short-sale listings across Blue Earth, MN; 117 days on market observed in Blue Earth, MN; 7.8% vacancy over 20 Blue Earth, MN ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Blue Earth County, MN. The non-metro area reading for Blue Earth, MN: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Blue Earth, MN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.2% (Blue Earth, MN, December 2025 data); Minnesota overall 0.6%.

Blue Earth County, MN has 11 watched banks; 11 Blue Earth, MN banks sit in an elevated band. Blue Earth, MN footprints: Community Bank Mankato (5 branches, stress 72) in Blue Earth, MN; Minnstar Bank National Assn (2 branches, stress 68) in Blue Earth, MN; Cornerstone State Bank (2 branches, stress 68) in Blue Earth, MN.

HUD lists 9 assisted multifamily properties in Blue Earth County, MN with 573 units; 227 Blue Earth, MN units are assisted, 3 Blue Earth, MN properties under project-based Section 8.

2,258 of the 29,864 housing units in Blue Earth, MN sit vacant. Blue Earth County, MN permitted 261 multifamily units in twelve months; Blue Earth, MN's one-to-four unit structures added 241 units in Blue Earth County, MN.