Steele County, MN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Steele County, MN, Minnesota: 11 ZIP codes scored, Steele County, MN averaging 18/100 (low, Steele, MN), from 9 to 28. Steele County, MN is in its peak phase (Steele, MN confidence 18/100): Steele, MN home prices up 2.7% (Steele, MN) over twelve months. Steele County, MN lender headwind: 72/100.
Highest-scoring Steele County, MN ZIPs: 55052 (28/100), 55946 (23/100), 55049 (19/100), 55060 (19/100), 56046 (19/100), 55917 (18/100). Also scored in Steele County, MN: 56026, 56072, 56093, 55924, 55985.
Across Steele County, MN's scored ZIPs: median home value $226,655, household income $81,191, 7.5% vacancy, 8.5% poverty, 86% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.
Steele County, MN insurance distress 60/100 (#895 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Steele, MN; 2 federal disaster declarations in Steele County, MN since 2023 (2 flood); 2 Steele, MN NFIP flood claims, $76K paid; Steele, MN construction distress 6/100.
13 banks with 14 branches lend in Steele County, MN; Steele, MN weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 100/100 in Steele, MN.
Steele County, MN unemployment 5.6% (Steele, MN -0.5 pts, six months); 64 new housing units permitted in Steele County, MN over twelve months, Steele, MN up 129% from 28; Steele, MN home prices +7.9% a year (Steele, MN) over three years.
15,995 housing units in Steele County, MN; 3,015 Steele, MN renter households; 53% of Steele, MN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Steele, MN) half or more.
Steele County, MN ranks #3,000 nationally on the opportunity index (Steele, MN, among all ranked counties); Steele, MN scores 23.1/100 and Steele, MN sits #72 inside Minnesota. Steele, MN is in the weak opportunity phase; Steele, MN's primary driver is bank institutional, Steele, MN second driver vacancy; Steele, MN moved up 54 places. 2 short-sale listings across Steele, MN; 96 days on market observed in Steele, MN; 5.1% vacancy over 11 Steele, MN ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Steele County, MN. The non-metro area reading for Steele, MN: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Steele, MN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.2% (Steele, MN, December 2025 data); Minnesota overall 0.6%.
Steele County, MN has 7 watched banks; 7 Steele, MN banks sit in an elevated band. Steele, MN footprints: Keen Bank National Assn (2 branches, stress 56) in Steele, MN; First State Bank Of Red Wing (1 branch, stress 100) in Steele, MN; Community Bank Owatonna (1 branch, stress 85) in Steele, MN.
HUD lists 6 assisted multifamily properties in Steele County, MN with 276 units; 137 Steele, MN units are assisted, 1 Steele, MN properties under project-based Section 8.
857 of the 15,995 housing units in Steele, MN sit vacant. Steele County, MN permitted 27 multifamily units in twelve months; Steele, MN's one-to-four unit structures added 37 units in Steele County, MN.