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

Benton County, MO, Missouri: 13 ZIP codes scored, Benton County, MO averaging 15/100 (low, Benton, MO), from 8 to 19. Benton County, MO is in its peak phase (Benton, MO confidence 29/100): Benton, MO home prices up 4.4% (Benton, MO) over twelve months. Benton County, MO lender headwind: 52/100.

Highest-scoring Benton County, MO ZIPs: 65325 (19/100), 65338 (19/100), 65355 (19/100), 65078 (18/100), 65779 (18/100), 65345 (16/100). Also scored in Benton County, MO: 65360, 65326, 65335, 65735, 65634, 64776, 64735.

Across Benton County, MO's scored ZIPs: median home value $208,400, household income $52,063, 30.3% vacancy, 17.3% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 48.7.

Benton County, MO insurance distress 0/100 (#2,807 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Benton, MO; Benton, MO construction distress 77/100.

5 banks with 6 branches lend in Benton County, MO; Benton, MO weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 71/100 in Benton, MO.

Benton County, MO unemployment 4.9% (Benton, MO -0.6 pts, six months); 4 new housing units permitted in Benton County, MO over twelve months, Benton, MO down 50% from 8; Benton, MO home prices +12.9% a year (Benton, MO) over three years.

13,594 housing units in Benton County, MO; 1,329 Benton, MO renter households; 41% of Benton, MO renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Benton, MO) half or more.

Benton County, MO ranks #468 nationally on the opportunity index (Benton, MO, among all ranked counties); Benton, MO scores 33.6/100 and Benton, MO sits #12 inside Missouri. Benton, MO is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Benton, MO's primary driver is vacancy, Benton, MO second driver construction; Benton, MO moved up 57 places. 11 short-sale listings across Benton, MO; 76 days on market observed in Benton, MO; 36.7% vacancy over 13 Benton, MO ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Benton County, MO. The non-metro area reading for Benton, MO: 0.9% ninety-plus days late; Benton, MO's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.4% (Benton, MO, December 2025 data); Missouri overall 0.9%.

Benton County, MO has 3 watched banks; 3 Benton, MO banks sit in an elevated band. Benton, MO footprints: Umb Bank National Assn (1 branch, stress 60) in Benton, MO; Hawthorn Bank (1 branch, stress 56) in Benton, MO; Citizens-Farmers Bk Cole Cam (1 branch, stress 32) in Benton, MO.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Benton County, MO with 22 units; 22 Benton, MO units are assisted, 1 Benton, MO properties under project-based Section 8.

5,021 of the 13,594 housing units in Benton, MO sit vacant. Benton County, MO permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Benton, MO's one-to-four unit structures added 4 units in Benton County, MO.