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

Lancaster County, NE, Nebraska: 44 ZIP codes scored, Lancaster County, NE averaging 28/100 (low, Lancaster, NE), from 16 to 29. Lancaster County, NE is in its peak phase (Lancaster, NE confidence 20/100): Lancaster, NE home prices up 2.1% (Lancaster, NE) over twelve months. Lancaster County, NE lender headwind: 51/100.

Highest-scoring Lancaster County, NE ZIPs: 68336 (29/100), 68372 (29/100), 68402 (29/100), 68404 (29/100), 68419 (29/100), 68428 (29/100). Also scored in Lancaster County, NE: 68430, 68438, 68461, 68462, 68502, 68503, 68504, 68505, 68506, 68507.

Across Lancaster County, NE's scored ZIPs: median home value $337,921, household income $77,531, 4.4% vacancy, 7.7% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 40.4.

Lancaster County, NE insurance distress 54/100 (#1,023 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Lancaster, NE; 6 federal disaster declarations in Lancaster County, NE since 2023; 1 Lancaster, NE NFIP flood claims, $12K paid; Lancaster, NE construction distress 60/100.

31 banks with 113 branches lend in Lancaster County, NE; Lancaster, NE weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 81/100 in Lancaster, NE.

Lancaster County, NE unemployment 2.6% (Lancaster, NE -0.6 pts, six months); 2,046 new housing units permitted in Lancaster County, NE over twelve months, Lancaster, NE down 10% from 2,270; Lancaster, NE home prices +9.1% a year (Lancaster, NE) over three years.

140,324 housing units in Lancaster County, NE; 54,395 Lancaster, NE renter households; 43% of Lancaster, NE renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Lancaster, NE) half or more.

Lancaster County, NE ranks #1,891 nationally on the opportunity index (Lancaster, NE, among all ranked counties); Lancaster, NE scores 28.1/100 and Lancaster, NE sits #44 inside Nebraska. Lancaster, NE is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Lancaster, NE's primary driver is construction, Lancaster, NE second driver bank institutional; Lancaster, NE moved up 636 places. 77 short-sale listings across Lancaster, NE; 61 days on market observed in Lancaster, NE; 4.4% vacancy over 44 Lancaster, NE ZIPs.

0.5% of Lancaster County, NE mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Lancaster, NE's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.7% (CFPB county sample). Lancaster, NE's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Lancaster, NE peak since 2008 was 2.3% in November 2009; Nebraska overall reads 0.6%.

Lancaster County, NE has 23 watched banks; 23 Lancaster, NE banks sit in an elevated band. Lancaster, NE footprints: Union Bank&Trust Co (19 branches, stress 55) in Lancaster, NE; Pinnacle Bank (12 branches, stress 62) in Lancaster, NE; Cornhusker Bank (8 branches, stress 63) in Lancaster, NE.

HUD lists 21 assisted multifamily properties in Lancaster County, NE with 2,026 units; 380 Lancaster, NE units are assisted, 6 Lancaster, NE properties under project-based Section 8.

6,198 of the 140,324 housing units in Lancaster, NE sit vacant. Lancaster County, NE permitted 1,052 multifamily units in twelve months; Lancaster, NE's one-to-four unit structures added 994 units in Lancaster County, NE.