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

Phelps County, NE, Nebraska: 10 ZIP codes scored, Phelps County, NE averaging 15/100 (low, Phelps, NE), from 8 to 25. Phelps County, NE is in its peak phase (Phelps, NE confidence 24/100): Phelps, NE home prices up 3.3% (Phelps, NE) over twelve months. Phelps County, NE lender headwind: 52/100.

Highest-scoring Phelps County, NE ZIPs: 68863 (25/100), 68836 (18/100), 68845 (18/100), 68923 (14/100), 68940 (14/100), 68949 (14/100). Also scored in Phelps County, NE: 68958, 68982, 68927, 68924.

Across Phelps County, NE's scored ZIPs: median home value $201,922, household income $73,679, 7.3% vacancy, 7.7% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 38.0.

Phelps County, NE insurance distress 0/100 (#2,893 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Phelps, NE; Phelps, NE construction distress 69/100.

7 banks with 8 branches lend in Phelps County, NE; Phelps, NE weighted bank stress 55/100, highest 81/100 in Phelps, NE.

Phelps County, NE unemployment 2.2% (Phelps, NE -0.4 pts, six months); 9 new housing units permitted in Phelps County, NE over twelve months, Phelps, NE down 18% from 11; Phelps, NE home prices +10.2% a year (Phelps, NE) over three years.

4,170 housing units in Phelps County, NE; 1,151 Phelps, NE renter households; 41% of Phelps, NE renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Phelps, NE) half or more.

Phelps County, NE ranks #2,889 nationally on the opportunity index (Phelps, NE, among all ranked counties); Phelps, NE scores 23.9/100 and Phelps, NE sits #78 inside Nebraska. Phelps, NE is in the weak opportunity phase; Phelps, NE's primary driver is construction, Phelps, NE second driver bank institutional; Phelps, NE moved up 46 places. 18 short-sale listings across Phelps, NE; 91 days on market observed in Phelps, NE; 7.3% vacancy over 10 Phelps, NE ZIPs.

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

Phelps County, NE has 5 watched banks; 5 Phelps, NE banks sit in an elevated band. Phelps, NE footprints: First State Bank (2 branches, stress 27) in Phelps, NE; Lincoln Fsb Of Nebraska (1 branch, stress 81) in Phelps, NE; Bruning Bank (1 branch, stress 69) in Phelps, NE.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Phelps County, NE with 8 units; 8 Phelps, NE units are assisted.

254 of the 4,170 housing units in Phelps, NE sit vacant. Phelps County, NE permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Phelps, NE's one-to-four unit structures added 9 units in Phelps County, NE.