Brown County, WI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Brown County, WI, Wisconsin: 19 ZIP codes scored, Brown County, WI averaging 27/100 (low, Brown, WI), from 13 to 30. Brown County, WI is in its expansion phase (Brown, WI confidence 34/100): Brown, WI home prices up 5.3% (Brown, WI) over twelve months. Brown County, WI lender headwind: 41/100.

Highest-scoring Brown County, WI ZIPs: 54115 (30/100), 54126 (30/100), 54173 (30/100), 54180 (30/100), 54229 (30/100), 54301 (30/100). Also scored in Brown County, WI: 54302, 54303, 54304, 54307, 54311, 54313, 54155, 54208, 54130, 54165.

Across Brown County, WI's scored ZIPs: median home value $274,839, household income $82,240, 3.6% vacancy, 7.9% poverty, 73% owner-occupied, median age 38.9.

Brown County, WI insurance distress 70/100 (#615 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Brown, WI; 3 federal disaster declarations in Brown County, WI since 2023 (3 flood); 17 Brown, WI NFIP flood claims, $333K paid; Brown, WI construction distress 53/100.

16 banks with 58 branches lend in Brown County, WI; Brown, WI weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 87/100 in Brown, WI.

Brown County, WI unemployment 3.1% (Brown, WI -0.6 pts, six months); 1,551 new housing units permitted in Brown County, WI over twelve months, Brown, WI down 6% from 1,643; Brown, WI home prices +11.9% a year (Brown, WI) over three years.

115,493 housing units in Brown County, WI; 39,008 Brown, WI renter households; 38% of Brown, WI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Brown, WI) half or more.

Brown County, WI ranks #2,367 nationally on the opportunity index (Brown, WI, among all ranked counties); Brown, WI scores 26.4/100 and Brown, WI sits #31 inside Wisconsin. Brown, WI is in the weak opportunity phase; Brown, WI's primary driver is bank institutional, Brown, WI second driver construction; Brown, WI moved up 260 places. 44 short-sale listings across Brown, WI; 50 days on market observed in Brown, WI; 3.4% vacancy over 19 Brown, WI ZIPs.

0.4% of Brown County, WI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Brown, WI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.4% (CFPB county sample). Brown, WI's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Brown, WI peak since 2008 was 2.2% in October 2011; Wisconsin overall reads 0.5%.

Brown County, WI has 10 watched banks; 10 Brown, WI banks sit in an elevated band. Brown, WI footprints: Associated Bank Na (11 branches, stress 68) in Brown, WI; Nicolet National Bank (7 branches, stress 50) in Brown, WI; North Shore Bank (6 branches, stress 51) in Brown, WI.

HUD lists 10 assisted multifamily properties in Brown County, WI with 871 units; 322 Brown, WI units are assisted, 3 Brown, WI properties under project-based Section 8.

4,560 of the 115,493 housing units in Brown, WI sit vacant. Brown County, WI permitted 748 multifamily units in twelve months; Brown, WI's one-to-four unit structures added 803 units in Brown County, WI.