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

Rice County, MN, Minnesota: 16 ZIP codes scored, Rice County, MN averaging 25/100 (low, Rice, MN), from 16 to 29. Rice County, MN is in its peak phase (Rice, MN confidence 18/100): Rice, MN home prices up 2.7% (Rice, MN) over twelve months. Rice County, MN lender headwind: 69/100.

Highest-scoring Rice County, MN ZIPs: 55019 (29/100), 55021 (29/100), 55046 (29/100), 55087 (29/100), 55052 (28/100), 55088 (28/100). Also scored in Rice County, MN: 55053, 56069, 55057, 56052, 55018, 56071, 56096, 55946, 55049, 56093.

Across Rice County, MN's scored ZIPs: median home value $321,388, household income $87,014, 8.0% vacancy, 6.2% poverty, 86% owner-occupied, median age 41.7.

Rice County, MN insurance distress 66/100 (#753 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Rice, MN; 2 federal disaster declarations in Rice County, MN since 2023 (2 flood); 14 Rice, MN NFIP flood claims, $549K paid; Rice, MN construction distress 51/100.

10 banks with 17 branches lend in Rice County, MN; Rice, MN weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 86/100 in Rice, MN.

Rice County, MN unemployment 4.9% (Rice, MN -0.4 pts, six months); 99 new housing units permitted in Rice County, MN over twelve months, Rice, MN down 4% from 103; Rice, MN home prices +6.5% a year (Rice, MN) over three years.

25,295 housing units in Rice County, MN; 5,631 Rice, MN renter households; 44% of Rice, MN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Rice, MN) half or more.

Rice County, MN ranks #2,727 nationally on the opportunity index (Rice, MN, among all ranked counties); Rice, MN scores 24.8/100 and Rice, MN sits #57 inside Minnesota. Rice, MN is in the weak opportunity phase; Rice, MN's primary driver is bank institutional, Rice, MN second driver construction; Rice, MN moved down 324 places. 2 short-sale listings across Rice, MN; 85 days on market observed in Rice, MN; 7.2% vacancy over 16 Rice, MN ZIPs.

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

Rice County, MN has 9 watched banks; 9 Rice, MN banks sit in an elevated band. Rice, MN footprints: Lake Country Community Bank (2 branches, stress 86) in Rice, MN; State Bank Of Faribault (2 branches, stress 77) in Rice, MN; Merchants Bank National Assn (2 branches, stress 59) in Rice, MN.

HUD lists 10 assisted multifamily properties in Rice County, MN with 583 units; 290 Rice, MN units are assisted, 3 Rice, MN properties under project-based Section 8.

1,802 of the 25,295 housing units in Rice, MN sit vacant. Rice County, MN permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Rice, MN's one-to-four unit structures added 99 units in Rice County, MN.