Custer County, NE: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Custer County, NE, Nebraska: 21 ZIP codes scored, Custer County, NE averaging 9/100 (minimal, Custer, NE), from 2 to 26. Custer County, NE is in its peak phase (Custer, NE confidence 24/100): Custer, NE home prices up 3.3% (Custer, NE) over twelve months. Custer County, NE lender headwind: 20/100.

Highest-scoring Custer County, NE ZIPs: 69130 (26/100), 68878 (25/100), 68834 (23/100), 68858 (20/100), 68866 (19/100), 69138 (15/100). Also scored in Custer County, NE: 68860, 69120, 68814, 68815, 68822, 68825, 68828, 68855, 68856, 68874.

Across Custer County, NE's scored ZIPs: median home value $161,905, household income $69,670, 19.5% vacancy, 7.2% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 46.4.

Custer County, NE insurance distress 0/100 (#2,872 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Custer, NE; Custer, NE construction distress 6/100.

8 banks with 12 branches lend in Custer County, NE; Custer, NE weighted bank stress 54/100, highest 77/100 in Custer, NE.

Custer County, NE unemployment 2.4% (Custer, NE -0.4 pts, six months); 37 new housing units permitted in Custer County, NE over twelve months, Custer, NE up 61% from 23; Custer, NE home prices +7.1% a year (Custer, NE) over three years.

5,334 housing units in Custer County, NE; 1,297 Custer, NE renter households; 28% of Custer, NE renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 14% (Custer, NE) half or more.

Custer County, NE ranks #2,620 nationally on the opportunity index (Custer, NE, among all ranked counties); Custer, NE scores 25.3/100 and Custer, NE sits #70 inside Nebraska. Custer, NE is in the weak opportunity phase; Custer, NE's primary driver is vacancy, Custer, NE second driver bank institutional; Custer, NE moved up 36 places. 3 short-sale listings across Custer, NE; 85 days on market observed in Custer, NE; 15.6% vacancy over 21 Custer, NE ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Custer County, NE. The non-metro area reading for Custer, NE: 0.8% ninety-plus days late; Custer, NE's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Custer, NE, December 2025 data); Nebraska overall 0.6%.

Custer County, NE has 8 watched banks; 8 Custer, NE banks sit in an elevated band. Custer, NE footprints: Nebraska State Bank&Trust Co (4 branches, stress 44) in Custer, NE; Security First Bank (2 branches, stress 77) in Custer, NE; Flatwater Bank (1 branch, stress 72) in Custer, NE.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Custer County, NE with 30 units; 30 Custer, NE units are assisted, 1 Custer, NE properties under project-based Section 8.

832 of the 5,334 housing units in Custer, NE sit vacant. Custer County, NE permitted 10 multifamily units in twelve months; Custer, NE's one-to-four unit structures added 27 units in Custer County, NE.