Forest County, WI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Forest County, WI, Wisconsin: 11 ZIP codes scored, Forest County, WI averaging 15/100 (low, Forest, WI), from 13 to 19. Forest County, WI is in its peak phase (Forest, WI confidence 40/100): Forest, WI home prices up 4.6% (Forest, WI) over twelve months. Forest County, WI lender headwind: 100/100.
Highest-scoring Forest County, WI ZIPs: 54104 (19/100), 54125 (17/100), 54521 (16/100), 54103 (15/100), 54511 (15/100), 54520 (15/100). Also scored in Forest County, WI: 54541, 54542, 54562, 54566, 54465.
Across Forest County, WI's scored ZIPs: median home value $198,682, household income $63,867, 58.4% vacancy, 11.6% poverty, 88% owner-occupied, median age 54.5.
Forest County, WI insurance distress 0/100 (#3,188 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Forest, WI; 3 federal disaster declarations in Forest County, WI since 2023; Forest, WI construction distress 69/100.
2 banks with 6 branches lend in Forest County, WI; Forest, WI weighted bank stress 89/100, highest 93/100 in Forest, WI.
Forest County, WI unemployment 3.8% (Forest, WI -2.9 pts, six months); 44 new housing units permitted in Forest County, WI over twelve months, Forest, WI down 25% from 59; Forest, WI home prices +9.0% a year (Forest, WI) over three years.
8,715 housing units in Forest County, WI; 697 Forest, WI renter households; 24% of Forest, WI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 13% (Forest, WI) half or more.
Forest County, WI ranks #389 nationally on the opportunity index (Forest, WI, among all ranked counties); Forest, WI scores 34.1/100 and Forest, WI sits #1 inside Wisconsin. Forest, WI is in the overheated opportunity phase; Forest, WI's primary driver is vacancy, Forest, WI second driver bank institutional; Forest, WI moved down 350 places. 3 short-sale listings across Forest, WI; 19 days on market observed in Forest, WI; 50.4% vacancy over 11 Forest, WI ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Forest County, WI. The non-metro area reading for Forest, WI: 0.5% ninety-plus days late; Forest, WI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.3% (Forest, WI, December 2025 data); Wisconsin overall 0.5%.
Forest County, WI has 2 watched banks; 2 Forest, WI banks sit in an elevated band. Forest, WI footprints: Laona State Bank (5 branches, stress 93) in Forest, WI; Associated Bank Na (1 branch, stress 68) in Forest, WI.
4,709 of the 8,715 housing units in Forest, WI sit vacant. Forest County, WI permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Forest, WI's one-to-four unit structures added 44 units in Forest County, WI.