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

Seward County, NE, Nebraska: 19 ZIP codes scored, Seward County, NE averaging 18/100 (low, Seward, NE), from 12 to 30. Seward County, NE is in its peak phase (Seward, NE confidence 20/100): Seward, NE home prices up 2.1% (Seward, NE) over twelve months. Seward County, NE lender headwind: 49/100.

Highest-scoring Seward County, NE ZIPs: 68528 (30/100), 68428 (29/100), 68339 (28/100), 68065 (26/100), 68343 (16/100), 68359 (16/100). Also scored in Seward County, NE: 68423, 68313, 68314, 68330, 68360, 68364, 68367, 68405, 68434, 68439.

Across Seward County, NE's scored ZIPs: median home value $221,437, household income $81,979, 7.2% vacancy, 7.0% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 44.3.

Seward County, NE insurance distress 21/100 (#2,217 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Seward, NE; 4 federal disaster declarations in Seward County, NE since 2023; Seward, NE construction distress 49/100.

5 banks with 9 branches lend in Seward County, NE; Seward, NE weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 79/100 in Seward, NE.

Seward County, NE unemployment 2.6% (Seward, NE -0.3 pts, six months); 56 new housing units permitted in Seward County, NE over twelve months, Seward, NE up 2% from 55; Seward, NE home prices +9.9% a year (Seward, NE) over three years.

7,206 housing units in Seward County, NE; 1,855 Seward, NE renter households; 35% of Seward, NE renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Seward, NE) half or more.

Seward County, NE ranks #3,185 nationally on the opportunity index (Seward, NE, among all ranked counties); Seward, NE scores 20.6/100 and Seward, NE sits #91 inside Nebraska. Seward, NE is in the weak opportunity phase; Seward, NE's primary driver is bank institutional, Seward, NE second driver construction; Seward, NE moved down 313 places. 3 short-sale listings across Seward, NE; 3 days on market observed in Seward, NE; 7.0% vacancy over 19 Seward, NE ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Seward County, NE. The metro area reading for Seward, NE (Lincoln, NE): 0.5% ninety-plus days late; Seward, NE's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 0.7% (Seward, NE, December 2025 data); Nebraska overall 0.6%.

Seward County, NE has 5 watched banks; 5 Seward, NE banks sit in an elevated band. Seward, NE footprints: Farmers&Merchants Bank (2 branches, stress 79) in Seward, NE; Jones Bank (2 branches, stress 71) in Seward, NE; First Bank Of Utica (2 branches, stress 63) in Seward, NE.

418 of the 7,206 housing units in Seward, NE sit vacant. Seward County, NE permitted 4 multifamily units in twelve months; Seward, NE's one-to-four unit structures added 52 units in Seward County, NE.