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

Wadena County, MN, Minnesota: 7 ZIP codes scored, Wadena County, MN averaging 13/100 (minimal, Wadena, MN), from 9 to 17. Wadena County, MN is in its peak phase (Wadena, MN confidence 28/100): Wadena, MN home prices up 3.4% (Wadena, MN) over twelve months. Wadena County, MN lender headwind: 31/100.

Highest-scoring Wadena County, MN ZIPs: 56434 (17/100), 56479 (15/100), 56482 (14/100), 56477 (12/100), 56481 (11/100), 56464 (10/100). Also scored in Wadena County, MN: 56470.

Across Wadena County, MN's scored ZIPs: median home value $200,186, household income $63,374, 19.9% vacancy, 13.3% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 42.4.

Wadena County, MN insurance distress 0/100 (#2,781 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Wadena, MN; Wadena, MN construction distress 62/100.

4 banks with 6 branches lend in Wadena County, MN; Wadena, MN weighted bank stress 56/100, highest 80/100 in Wadena, MN.

Wadena County, MN unemployment 6.1% (Wadena, MN -3.1 pts, six months); 63 new housing units permitted in Wadena County, MN over twelve months, Wadena, MN down 16% from 75; Wadena, MN home prices +11.5% a year (Wadena, MN) over three years.

7,021 housing units in Wadena County, MN; 1,619 Wadena, MN renter households; 37% of Wadena, MN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 12% (Wadena, MN) half or more.

Wadena County, MN ranks #1,117 nationally on the opportunity index (Wadena, MN, among all ranked counties); Wadena, MN scores 30.8/100 and Wadena, MN sits #6 inside Minnesota. Wadena, MN is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Wadena, MN's primary driver is vacancy, Wadena, MN second driver bank institutional; Wadena, MN moved down 283 places. 2 short-sale listings across Wadena, MN; 104 days on market observed in Wadena, MN; 16.1% vacancy over 7 Wadena, MN ZIPs.

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

Wadena County, MN has 4 watched banks; 4 Wadena, MN banks sit in an elevated band. Wadena, MN footprints: Wadena State Bank (2 branches, stress 58) in Wadena, MN; Community First Bank (2 branches, stress 44) in Wadena, MN; Star Bank (1 branch, stress 80) in Wadena, MN.

940 of the 7,021 housing units in Wadena, MN sit vacant. Wadena County, MN permitted 4 multifamily units in twelve months; Wadena, MN's one-to-four unit structures added 59 units in Wadena County, MN.