Bates County, MO: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Bates County, MO, Missouri: 13 ZIP codes scored, Bates County, MO averaging 11/100 (minimal, Bates, MO), from 7 to 19. Bates County, MO is in its peak phase (Bates, MO confidence 20/100): Bates, MO home prices up 2.8% (Bates, MO) over twelve months. Bates County, MO lender headwind: 1/100.

Highest-scoring Bates County, MO ZIPs: 64725 (19/100), 64742 (18/100), 64752 (16/100), 64779 (12/100), 64720 (9/100), 64722 (9/100). Also scored in Bates County, MO: 64723, 64730, 64745, 64770, 64788, 64724, 64780.

Across Bates County, MO's scored ZIPs: median home value $178,717, household income $59,676, 20.4% vacancy, 14.3% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 43.7.

Bates County, MO insurance distress 22/100 (#2,062 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Bates, MO; 2 Bates, MO NFIP flood claims, $31K paid; Bates, MO construction distress 5/100.

3 banks with 9 branches lend in Bates County, MO; Bates, MO weighted bank stress 46/100, highest 50/100 in Bates, MO.

Bates County, MO unemployment 3.7% (Bates, MO -0.3 pts, six months); 11 new housing units permitted in Bates County, MO over twelve months, Bates, MO up 120% from 5; Bates, MO home prices +10.2% a year (Bates, MO) over three years.

7,192 housing units in Bates County, MO; 1,653 Bates, MO renter households; 42% of Bates, MO renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Bates, MO) half or more.

Bates County, MO ranks #2,615 nationally on the opportunity index (Bates, MO, among all ranked counties); Bates, MO scores 25.3/100 and Bates, MO sits #100 inside Missouri. Bates, MO is in the weak opportunity phase; Bates, MO's primary driver is vacancy, Bates, MO second driver bank institutional; Bates, MO moved up 287 places. 2 short-sale listings across Bates, MO; 51 days on market observed in Bates, MO; 15.5% vacancy over 13 Bates, MO ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Bates County, MO. The metro area reading for Bates, MO (Kansas City, MO-KS): 0.8% ninety-plus days late; Bates, MO's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.0% (Bates, MO, December 2025 data); Missouri overall 0.9%.

Bates County, MO has 3 watched banks; 3 Bates, MO banks sit in an elevated band. Bates, MO footprints: Citizens Bank (5 branches, stress 50) in Bates, MO; Community First Bank (2 branches, stress 48) in Bates, MO; Adrian Bank (2 branches, stress 35) in Bates, MO.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Bates County, MO with 34 units; 34 Bates, MO units are assisted, 1 Bates, MO properties under project-based Section 8.

1,034 of the 7,192 housing units in Bates, MO sit vacant. Bates County, MO permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Bates, MO's one-to-four unit structures added 11 units in Bates County, MO.