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

Cook County, MN, Minnesota: 6 ZIP codes scored, Cook County, MN averaging 12/100 (minimal, Cook, MN). Cook County, MN is in its peak phase (Cook, MN confidence 28/100): Cook, MN home prices up 3.4% (Cook, MN) over twelve months. Cook County, MN lender headwind: 81/100.

Highest-scoring Cook County, MN ZIPs: 55604 (12/100), 55605 (12/100), 55606 (12/100), 55612 (12/100), 55613 (12/100), 55615 (12/100).

Across Cook County, MN's scored ZIPs: median home value $317,950, household income $70,074, 57.4% vacancy, 16.1% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 49.3.

Cook County, MN insurance distress 27/100 (#1,747 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Cook, MN; 2 federal disaster declarations in Cook County, MN since 2023 (2 flood); Cook, MN construction distress 44/100.

2 banks with 3 branches lend in Cook County, MN; Cook, MN weighted bank stress 69/100, highest 82/100 in Cook, MN.

Cook County, MN unemployment 3.9% (Cook, MN -3.8 pts, six months); 67 new housing units permitted in Cook County, MN over twelve months, Cook, MN up 6% from 63; Cook, MN home prices +14.4% a year (Cook, MN) over three years.

6,079 housing units in Cook County, MN; 550 Cook, MN renter households; 27% of Cook, MN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 10% (Cook, MN) half or more.

Cook County, MN ranks #1,054 nationally on the opportunity index (Cook, MN, among all ranked counties); Cook, MN scores 31.0/100 and Cook, MN sits #5 inside Minnesota. Cook, MN is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Cook, MN's primary driver is vacancy, Cook, MN second driver bank institutional; Cook, MN moved down 567 places. 1 short-sale listings across Cook, MN; 81 days on market observed in Cook, MN; 50.8% vacancy over 6 Cook, MN ZIPs.

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

Cook County, MN has 2 watched banks; 2 Cook, MN banks sit in an elevated band. Cook, MN footprints: Grand Marais State Bank (2 branches, stress 63) in Cook, MN; Security Stb Of Aitkin (1 branch, stress 82) in Cook, MN.

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

3,369 of the 6,079 housing units in Cook, MN sit vacant. Cook County, MN permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Cook, MN's one-to-four unit structures added 67 units in Cook County, MN.