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

Kearney County, NE, Nebraska: 11 ZIP codes scored, Kearney County, NE averaging 15/100 (low, Kearney, NE), from 7 to 21. Kearney County, NE is in its peak phase (Kearney, NE confidence 18/100): Kearney, NE home prices up 3.1% (Kearney, NE) over twelve months. Kearney County, NE lender headwind: 22/100.

Highest-scoring Kearney County, NE ZIPs: 68956 (21/100), 68840 (19/100), 68845 (18/100), 68847 (18/100), 68932 (18/100), 68981 (14/100). Also scored in Kearney County, NE: 68982, 68947, 68945, 68924, 68959.

Across Kearney County, NE's scored ZIPs: median home value $192,718, household income $74,669, 11.8% vacancy, 11.2% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.

Kearney County, NE insurance distress 0/100 (#2,885 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Kearney, NE; Kearney, NE construction distress 40/100.

4 banks with 4 branches lend in Kearney County, NE; Kearney, NE weighted bank stress 48/100, highest 70/100 in Kearney, NE.

Kearney County, NE unemployment 2.5% (Kearney, NE -0.1 pts, six months); 18 new housing units permitted in Kearney County, NE over twelve months, Kearney, NE up 38% from 13; Kearney, NE home prices +9.6% a year (Kearney, NE) over three years.

2,988 housing units in Kearney County, NE; 590 Kearney, NE renter households; 15% of Kearney, NE renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 11% (Kearney, NE) half or more.

Kearney County, NE ranks #2,727 nationally on the opportunity index (Kearney, NE, among all ranked counties); Kearney, NE scores 24.8/100 and Kearney, NE sits #74 inside Nebraska. Kearney, NE is in the weak opportunity phase; Kearney, NE's primary driver is bank institutional, Kearney, NE second driver vacancy; Kearney, NE moved up 326 places. 34 short-sale listings across Kearney, NE; 20 days on market observed in Kearney, NE; 7.5% vacancy over 11 Kearney, NE ZIPs.

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

Kearney County, NE has 4 watched banks; 4 Kearney, NE banks sit in an elevated band. Kearney, NE footprints: First Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 70) in Kearney, NE; Cornerstone Bank (1 branch, stress 69) in Kearney, NE; First State Bank (1 branch, stress 27) in Kearney, NE.

174 of the 2,988 housing units in Kearney, NE sit vacant. Kearney County, NE permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Kearney, NE's one-to-four unit structures added 18 units in Kearney County, NE.