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

Marathon County, WI, Wisconsin: 29 ZIP codes scored, Marathon County, WI averaging 24/100 (low, Marathon, WI), from 14 to 28. Marathon County, WI is in its expansion phase (Marathon, WI confidence 49/100): Marathon, WI home prices up 5.1% (Marathon, WI) over twelve months. Marathon County, WI lender headwind: 48/100.

Highest-scoring Marathon County, WI ZIPs: 54401 (28/100), 54403 (28/100), 54417 (28/100), 54426 (28/100), 54440 (28/100), 54448 (28/100). Also scored in Marathon County, WI: 54471, 54474, 54476, 54484, 54408, 54411, 54455, 54427, 54405, 54412.

Across Marathon County, WI's scored ZIPs: median home value $205,825, household income $71,723, 7.8% vacancy, 8.3% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 43.3.

Marathon County, WI insurance distress 63/100 (#834 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Marathon, WI; 3 federal disaster declarations in Marathon County, WI since 2023 (3 flood); 2 Marathon, WI NFIP flood claims, $22K paid; Marathon, WI construction distress 50/100.

17 banks with 44 branches lend in Marathon County, WI; Marathon, WI weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 81/100 in Marathon, WI.

Marathon County, WI unemployment 3.0% (Marathon, WI -0.7 pts, six months); 388 new housing units permitted in Marathon County, WI over twelve months, Marathon, WI up 0% from 388; Marathon, WI home prices +10.0% a year (Marathon, WI) over three years.

60,910 housing units in Marathon County, WI; 15,119 Marathon, WI renter households; 40% of Marathon, WI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Marathon, WI) half or more.

Marathon County, WI ranks #2,649 nationally on the opportunity index (Marathon, WI, among all ranked counties); Marathon, WI scores 25.2/100 and Marathon, WI sits #41 inside Wisconsin. Marathon, WI is in the weak opportunity phase; Marathon, WI's primary driver is bank institutional, Marathon, WI second driver construction; Marathon, WI moved down 385 places. 8 short-sale listings across Marathon, WI; 57 days on market observed in Marathon, WI; 5.8% vacancy over 29 Marathon, WI ZIPs.

0.4% of Marathon County, WI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Marathon, WI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.9% (CFPB county sample). Marathon, WI's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Marathon, WI peak since 2008 was 2.2% in February 2010; Wisconsin overall reads 0.5%.

Marathon County, WI has 15 watched banks; 15 Marathon, WI banks sit in an elevated band. Marathon, WI footprints: Incrediblebank (5 branches, stress 77) in Marathon, WI; Peoples State Bank (5 branches, stress 70) in Marathon, WI; Abbybank (4 branches, stress 81) in Marathon, WI.

HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Marathon County, WI with 340 units; 266 Marathon, WI units are assisted, 2 Marathon, WI properties under project-based Section 8.

3,044 of the 60,910 housing units in Marathon, WI sit vacant. Marathon County, WI permitted 158 multifamily units in twelve months; Marathon, WI's one-to-four unit structures added 230 units in Marathon County, WI.