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

Sauk County, WI, Wisconsin: 19 ZIP codes scored, Sauk County, WI averaging 20/100 (low, Sauk, WI), from 15 to 24. Sauk County, WI is in its expansion phase (Sauk, WI confidence 32/100): Sauk, WI home prices up 5.3% (Sauk, WI) over twelve months. Sauk County, WI lender headwind: 39/100.

Highest-scoring Sauk County, WI ZIPs: 53583 (24/100), 53944 (22/100), 53561 (21/100), 53577 (21/100), 53578 (21/100), 53913 (21/100). Also scored in Sauk County, WI: 53940, 53941, 53942, 53943, 53951, 53959, 53961, 53968, 53588, 53937.

Across Sauk County, WI's scored ZIPs: median home value $253,078, household income $77,945, 13.9% vacancy, 9.1% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 42.4.

Sauk County, WI insurance distress 53/100 (#1,041 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Sauk, WI; 2 federal disaster declarations in Sauk County, WI since 2023 (2 flood); 1 Sauk, WI NFIP flood claims, $8K paid; Sauk, WI construction distress 6/100.

13 banks with 25 branches lend in Sauk County, WI; Sauk, WI weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 72/100 in Sauk, WI.

Sauk County, WI unemployment 2.8% (Sauk, WI -1.4 pts, six months); 423 new housing units permitted in Sauk County, WI over twelve months, Sauk, WI up 51% from 281; Sauk, WI home prices +10.9% a year (Sauk, WI) over three years.

31,496 housing units in Sauk County, WI; 7,371 Sauk, WI renter households; 36% of Sauk, WI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Sauk, WI) half or more.

Sauk County, WI ranks #2,538 nationally on the opportunity index (Sauk, WI, among all ranked counties); Sauk, WI scores 25.7/100 and Sauk, WI sits #38 inside Wisconsin. Sauk, WI is in the weak opportunity phase; Sauk, WI's primary driver is bank institutional, Sauk, WI second driver vacancy; Sauk, WI moved up 187 places. 7 short-sale listings across Sauk, WI; 70 days on market observed in Sauk, WI; 9.9% vacancy over 19 Sauk, WI ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Sauk County, WI. The non-metro area reading for Sauk, WI: 0.5% ninety-plus days late; Sauk, WI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.3% (Sauk, WI, December 2025 data); Wisconsin overall 0.5%.

Sauk County, WI has 11 watched banks; 11 Sauk, WI banks sit in an elevated band. Sauk, WI footprints: Baraboo State Bank (6 branches, stress 61) in Sauk, WI; Community First Bank (2 branches, stress 60) in Sauk, WI; Royal Bank (2 branches, stress 59) in Sauk, WI.

HUD lists 6 assisted multifamily properties in Sauk County, WI with 530 units; 104 Sauk, WI units are assisted, 1 Sauk, WI properties under project-based Section 8.

3,509 of the 31,496 housing units in Sauk, WI sit vacant. Sauk County, WI permitted 188 multifamily units in twelve months; Sauk, WI's one-to-four unit structures added 235 units in Sauk County, WI.