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

Brown County, MN, Minnesota: 11 ZIP codes scored, Brown County, MN averaging 17/100 (low, Brown, MN), from 13 to 19. Brown County, MN is in its peak phase (Brown, MN confidence 18/100): Brown, MN home prices up 2.7% (Brown, MN) over twelve months. Brown County, MN lender headwind: 67/100.

Highest-scoring Brown County, MN ZIPs: 56030 (19/100), 56041 (19/100), 56073 (19/100), 56085 (19/100), 56019 (18/100), 56062 (18/100). Also scored in Brown County, MN: 55333, 56087, 56081, 56083, 56266.

Across Brown County, MN's scored ZIPs: median home value $163,960, household income $69,467, 10.1% vacancy, 15.4% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.

Brown County, MN insurance distress 58/100 (#951 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Brown, MN; 2 federal disaster declarations in Brown County, MN since 2023 (2 flood); 2 Brown, MN NFIP flood claims, $39K paid.

10 banks with 11 branches lend in Brown County, MN; Brown, MN weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 77/100 in Brown, MN.

Brown County, MN unemployment 4.3% (Brown, MN -1.7 pts, six months); 145 new housing units permitted in Brown County, MN over twelve months, Brown, MN up 339% from 33; Brown, MN home prices +7.6% a year (Brown, MN) over three years.

11,827 housing units in Brown County, MN; 2,251 Brown, MN renter households; 42% of Brown, MN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Brown, MN) half or more.

Brown County, MN ranks #2,786 nationally on the opportunity index (Brown, MN, among all ranked counties); Brown, MN scores 24.5/100 and Brown, MN sits #59 inside Minnesota. Brown, MN is in the weak opportunity phase; Brown, MN's primary driver is bank institutional, Brown, MN second driver vacancy; Brown, MN moved up 70 places. 1 short-sale listings across Brown, MN; 60 days on market observed in Brown, MN; 8.0% vacancy over 11 Brown, MN ZIPs.

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

Brown County, MN has 9 watched banks; 9 Brown, MN banks sit in an elevated band. Brown, MN footprints: Alliance Bank (2 branches, stress 70) in Brown, MN; Citizens Bank Minnesota (1 branch, stress 77) in Brown, MN; Americana Community Bank (1 branch, stress 75) in Brown, MN.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Brown County, MN with 24 units; 23 Brown, MN units are assisted.

800 of the 11,827 housing units in Brown, MN sit vacant. Brown County, MN permitted 117 multifamily units in twelve months; Brown, MN's one-to-four unit structures added 28 units in Brown County, MN.