Vilas County, WI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Vilas County, WI, Wisconsin: 13 ZIP codes scored, Vilas County, WI averaging 16/100 (low, Vilas, WI), from 15 to 16. Vilas County, WI is in its peak phase (Vilas, WI confidence 40/100): Vilas, WI home prices up 4.6% (Vilas, WI) over twelve months. Vilas County, WI lender headwind: 42/100.
Highest-scoring Vilas County, WI ZIPs: 54512 (16/100), 54519 (16/100), 54521 (16/100), 54540 (16/100), 54545 (16/100), 54554 (16/100). Also scored in Vilas County, WI: 54557, 54558, 54560, 54561, 54568, 54538, 54548.
Across Vilas County, WI's scored ZIPs: median home value $325,538, household income $68,489, 60.0% vacancy, 8.2% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 56.5.
Vilas County, WI insurance distress 0/100 (#3,206 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Vilas, WI; 3 federal disaster declarations in Vilas County, WI since 2023; Vilas, WI construction distress 69/100.
11 banks with 13 branches lend in Vilas County, WI; Vilas, WI weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 77/100 in Vilas, WI.
Vilas County, WI unemployment 3.5% (Vilas, WI -2.4 pts, six months); 263 new housing units permitted in Vilas County, WI over twelve months, Vilas, WI down 20% from 329; Vilas, WI home prices +16.2% a year (Vilas, WI) over three years.
24,876 housing units in Vilas County, WI; 1,797 Vilas, WI renter households; 21% of Vilas, WI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 9% (Vilas, WI) half or more.
Vilas County, WI ranks #1,426 nationally on the opportunity index (Vilas, WI, among all ranked counties); Vilas, WI scores 29.7/100 and Vilas, WI sits #13 inside Wisconsin. Vilas, WI is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Vilas, WI's primary driver is vacancy, Vilas, WI second driver construction; Vilas, WI moved down 998 places. 5 short-sale listings across Vilas, WI; 74 days on market observed in Vilas, WI; 53.9% vacancy over 13 Vilas, WI ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Vilas County, WI. The non-metro area reading for Vilas, WI: 0.5% ninety-plus days late; Vilas, WI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.3% (Vilas, WI, December 2025 data); Wisconsin overall 0.5%.
Vilas County, WI has 9 watched banks; 9 Vilas, WI banks sit in an elevated band. Vilas, WI footprints: Associated Bank Na (2 branches, stress 68) in Vilas, WI; Headwaters State Bank (2 branches, stress 53) in Vilas, WI; Incrediblebank (1 branch, stress 77) in Vilas, WI.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Vilas County, WI with 6 units; 6 Vilas, WI units are assisted.
13,729 of the 24,876 housing units in Vilas, WI sit vacant. Vilas County, WI permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Vilas, WI's one-to-four unit structures added 263 units in Vilas County, WI.