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

Milwaukee County, WI, Wisconsin: 37 ZIP codes scored, Milwaukee County, WI averaging 37/100 (moderate, Milwaukee, WI), from 25 to 37. Milwaukee County, WI is in its expansion phase (Milwaukee, WI confidence 33/100): Milwaukee, WI home prices up 5.7% (Milwaukee, WI) over twelve months. Milwaukee County, WI lender headwind: 48/100.

Highest-scoring Milwaukee County, WI ZIPs: 53110 (37/100), 53129 (37/100), 53130 (37/100), 53132 (37/100), 53154 (37/100), 53172 (37/100). Also scored in Milwaukee County, WI: 53202, 53203, 53204, 53205, 53206, 53207, 53208, 53209, 53210, 53211.

Across Milwaukee County, WI's scored ZIPs: median home value $238,823, household income $65,723, 8.3% vacancy, 17.3% poverty, 50% owner-occupied, median age 36.9.

Milwaukee County, WI insurance distress 85/100 (#228 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Milwaukee, WI; 6 federal disaster declarations in Milwaukee County, WI since 2023 (6 flood); 283 Milwaukee, WI NFIP flood claims, $11.9M paid; Milwaukee, WI construction distress 85/100.

27 banks with 199 branches lend in Milwaukee County, WI; Milwaukee, WI weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 100/100 in Milwaukee, WI.

Milwaukee County, WI unemployment 4.4% (Milwaukee, WI -0.6 pts, six months); 776 new housing units permitted in Milwaukee County, WI over twelve months, Milwaukee, WI down 35% from 1,198; Milwaukee, WI home prices +10.2% a year (Milwaukee, WI) over three years.

426,715 housing units in Milwaukee County, WI; 195,285 Milwaukee, WI renter households; 46% of Milwaukee, WI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Milwaukee, WI) half or more.

Milwaukee County, WI ranks #1,254 nationally on the opportunity index (Milwaukee, WI, among all ranked counties); Milwaukee, WI scores 30.3/100 and Milwaukee, WI sits #11 inside Wisconsin. Milwaukee, WI is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Milwaukee, WI's primary driver is construction, Milwaukee, WI second driver bank institutional; Milwaukee, WI moved down 91 places. 83 short-sale listings across Milwaukee, WI; 125 days on market observed in Milwaukee, WI; 8.1% vacancy over 37 Milwaukee, WI ZIPs.

0.7% of Milwaukee County, WI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Milwaukee, WI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.6% (CFPB county sample). Milwaukee, WI's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Milwaukee, WI peak since 2008 was 4.8% in December 2009; Wisconsin overall reads 0.5%.

Milwaukee County, WI has 16 watched banks; 16 Milwaukee, WI banks sit in an elevated band. Milwaukee, WI footprints: Associated Bank Na (18 branches, stress 68) in Milwaukee, WI; Tri City National Bank (17 branches, stress 75) in Milwaukee, WI; North Shore Bank (16 branches, stress 51) in Milwaukee, WI.

HUD lists 115 assisted multifamily properties in Milwaukee County, WI with 9,873 units; 5,849 Milwaukee, WI units are assisted, 43 Milwaukee, WI properties under project-based Section 8.

34,316 of the 426,715 housing units in Milwaukee, WI sit vacant. Milwaukee County, WI permitted 614 multifamily units in twelve months; Milwaukee, WI's one-to-four unit structures added 162 units in Milwaukee County, WI.