Rusk County, WI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Rusk County, WI, Wisconsin: 14 ZIP codes scored, Rusk County, WI averaging 14/100 (minimal, Rusk, WI), from 12 to 18. Rusk County, WI is in its peak phase (Rusk, WI confidence 40/100): Rusk, WI home prices up 4.6% (Rusk, WI) over twelve months. Rusk County, WI lender headwind: 60/100.
Highest-scoring Rusk County, WI ZIPs: 54745 (18/100), 54757 (17/100), 54835 (17/100), 54728 (14/100), 54766 (14/100), 54817 (14/100). Also scored in Rusk County, WI: 54868, 54526, 54530, 54563, 54731, 54819, 54848, 54895.
Across Rusk County, WI's scored ZIPs: median home value $192,364, household income $64,581, 31.4% vacancy, 11.3% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 50.3.
Rusk County, WI insurance distress 0/100 (#3,201 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Rusk, WI; Rusk, WI construction distress 65/100.
5 banks with 5 branches lend in Rusk County, WI; Rusk, WI weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 86/100 in Rusk, WI.
Rusk County, WI unemployment 4.2% (Rusk, WI -2.3 pts, six months); 72 new housing units permitted in Rusk County, WI over twelve months, Rusk, WI down 15% from 85; Rusk, WI home prices +15.9% a year (Rusk, WI) over three years.
8,663 housing units in Rusk County, WI; 1,407 Rusk, WI renter households; 34% of Rusk, WI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Rusk, WI) half or more.
Rusk County, WI ranks #1,426 nationally on the opportunity index (Rusk, WI, among all ranked counties); Rusk, WI scores 29.7/100 and Rusk, WI sits #13 inside Wisconsin. Rusk, WI is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Rusk, WI's primary driver is vacancy, Rusk, WI second driver construction; Rusk, WI moved down 344 places. 12 short-sale listings across Rusk, WI; 37 days on market observed in Rusk, WI; 24.3% vacancy over 14 Rusk, WI ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Rusk County, WI. The non-metro area reading for Rusk, WI: 0.5% ninety-plus days late; Rusk, WI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.3% (Rusk, WI, December 2025 data); Wisconsin overall 0.5%.
Rusk County, WI has 5 watched banks; 5 Rusk, WI banks sit in an elevated band. Rusk, WI footprints: Ladysmith Fs&La (1 branch, stress 86) in Rusk, WI; Ccfbank National Assn (1 branch, stress 69) in Rusk, WI; Cumberland Federal Bank Fsb (1 branch, stress 65) in Rusk, WI.
HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Rusk County, WI with 20 units; 20 Rusk, WI units are assisted.
2,308 of the 8,663 housing units in Rusk, WI sit vacant. Rusk County, WI permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Rusk, WI's one-to-four unit structures added 72 units in Rusk County, WI.