Dane County, WI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Dane County, WI, Wisconsin: 46 ZIP codes scored, Dane County, WI averaging 24/100 (low, Dane, WI), from 14 to 27. Dane County, WI is in its neutral phase (Dane, WI confidence 26/100): Dane, WI home prices up 4.7% (Dane, WI) over twelve months. Dane County, WI lender headwind: 56/100.
Highest-scoring Dane County, WI ZIPs: 53534 (27/100), 53515 (25/100), 53523 (25/100), 53527 (25/100), 53528 (25/100), 53529 (25/100). Also scored in Dane County, WI: 53531, 53532, 53558, 53559, 53562, 53571, 53572, 53575, 53589, 53590.
Across Dane County, WI's scored ZIPs: median home value $378,123, household income $90,436, 5.5% vacancy, 10.8% poverty, 67% owner-occupied, median age 39.2.
Dane County, WI insurance distress 29/100 (#1,646 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Dane, WI; 5 Dane, WI NFIP flood claims, $344K paid; Dane, WI construction distress 45/100.
33 banks with 126 branches lend in Dane County, WI; Dane, WI weighted bank stress 65/100, highest 78/100 in Dane, WI.
Dane County, WI unemployment 2.9% (Dane, WI -0.3 pts, six months); 6,019 new housing units permitted in Dane County, WI over twelve months, Dane, WI up 5% from 5,714; Dane, WI home prices +10.4% a year (Dane, WI) over three years.
261,061 housing units in Dane County, WI; 104,037 Dane, WI renter households; 44% of Dane, WI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Dane, WI) half or more.
Dane County, WI ranks #3,174 nationally on the opportunity index (Dane, WI, among all ranked counties); Dane, WI scores 20.8/100 and Dane, WI sits #68 inside Wisconsin. Dane, WI is in the weak opportunity phase; Dane, WI's primary driver is bank institutional, Dane, WI second driver construction; Dane, WI moved down 48 places. 34 short-sale listings across Dane, WI; 87 days on market observed in Dane, WI; 4.0% vacancy over 46 Dane, WI ZIPs.
0.3% of Dane County, WI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Dane, WI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.6% (CFPB county sample). Dane, WI's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Dane, WI peak since 2008 was 1.8% in February 2010; Wisconsin overall reads 0.5%.
Dane County, WI has 25 watched banks; 25 Dane, WI banks sit in an elevated band. Dane, WI footprints: Lake Ridge Bank (16 branches, stress 68) in Dane, WI; Park Bank (10 branches, stress 76) in Dane, WI; Associated Bank Na (10 branches, stress 68) in Dane, WI.
HUD lists 43 assisted multifamily properties in Dane County, WI with 4,067 units; 308 Dane, WI units are assisted, 3 Dane, WI properties under project-based Section 8.
9,532 of the 261,061 housing units in Dane, WI sit vacant. Dane County, WI permitted 4,556 multifamily units in twelve months; Dane, WI's one-to-four unit structures added 1,463 units in Dane County, WI.