Iowa Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every Iowa county and ZIP carries a DLRadar distress score built from public records. Phase-wise, Iowa counties run 89 peak, 9 neutral, 1 contraction. DLRadar scores 970 Iowa ZIPs across 99 counties (mean composite 18/100). Statewide, counties skew peak, prices up 2.6% on average.

Distress concentrates in Delaware County, Worth County, Louisa County, Tama County, Adams County; open any for county- and ZIP-level detail.

The highest-scoring Iowa ZIPs are 50007 (33/100), 50009 (33/100), 50021 (33/100), 50023 (33/100), 50032 (33/100) — open any for the parcel read.

Here is the county-by-county distress and phase picture for Iowa.

Adair County is peak (appreciation near 2.5%). In Adams County, peak: appreciation near 2.5%, lender pressure 80/100. Allamakee County: peak, up 2.5% on the year, bank stress 56/100. Appanoose County is in its peak phase, up 2.5% on the year, bank stress 43/100. Audubon County reads peak — homes +2.5% YoY, a 20/100 lender reading. Benton County reads neutral — appreciation near 4.9%, a 55/100 lender reading. Black Hawk County is in its peak phase, values rising 1.9%, headwind 42/100.

DLRadar reads Boone County as neutral — prices up 4.6%, lender pressure 57/100. Bremer County is peak (homes +1.9% YoY, a 32/100 lender reading). Buchanan County — peak, appreciation near 2.5%, bank stress 53/100. Buena Vista County reads peak — appreciation near 2.7%, a 52/100 lender reading. Butler County reads peak — homes +2.5% YoY, bank stress 73/100. Calhoun County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 2.5%, bank stress 29/100. Carroll County sits in peak, homes +2.7% YoY, headwind 55/100.

Cass County is peak (values rising 2.5%, headwind 18/100). Cedar County reads peak — homes +2.5% YoY, headwind 47/100. Cerro Gordo County is peak (up 2.7% on the year, headwind 65/100). Cherokee County is in its peak phase, prices up 2.5%, a 54/100 lender reading. Chickasaw County is peak (homes +2.5% YoY, a 64/100 lender reading). Clarke County is in its peak phase, up 2.5% on the year, headwind 41/100. Clay County is in its peak phase, prices up 2.7%, a 58/100 lender reading.

Clayton County is in its peak phase, homes +2.5% YoY, lender pressure 75/100. Clinton County: peak, prices up 2.7%, lender pressure 77/100. Crawford County — peak, values rising 2.5%, bank stress 71/100. Dallas County — peak, values rising 2.1%, headwind 66/100. DLRadar reads Davis County as peak — homes +2.5% YoY, headwind 21/100. Decatur County: peak, homes +2.5% YoY, lender pressure 30/100. Delaware County — peak, homes +2.5% YoY, lender pressure 95/100.

Des Moines County sits in peak, prices up 2.7%, headwind 68/100. Dickinson County reads peak — up 2.7% on the year, lender pressure 74/100. Dubuque County is in its neutral phase, up 4.8% on the year, lender pressure 67/100. Emmet County is in its peak phase, up 2.5% on the year, lender pressure 30/100. Fayette County sits in peak, prices up 2.5%, headwind 71/100. In Floyd County, peak: appreciation near 2.5%, a 68/100 lender reading. Franklin County is peak (prices up 2.5%, a 45/100 lender reading).

Fremont County is peak (prices up 2.5%, lender pressure 65/100). Greene County sits in peak, prices up 2.5%, lender pressure 53/100. In Grundy County, peak: up 1.9% on the year, bank stress 59/100. Guthrie County sits in peak, prices up 2.1%, a 49/100 lender reading. Hamilton County: peak, homes +2.5% YoY, lender pressure 48/100. In Hancock County, peak: prices up 2.5%, lender pressure 40/100. DLRadar reads Hardin County as peak — values rising 2.5%, bank stress 59/100.

Harrison County is neutral (homes +3.8% YoY, headwind 44/100). Henry County is peak (homes +2.5% YoY, bank stress 34/100). Howard County sits in peak, homes +2.5% YoY, lender pressure 34/100. Humboldt County sits in peak, prices up 2.5%, bank stress 44/100. Ida County reads peak — prices up 2.5%, lender pressure 64/100. Iowa County sits in peak, prices up 2.5%. DLRadar reads Jackson County as peak — appreciation near 2.5%, a 28/100 lender reading.

Jasper County: peak, values rising 2.1%, a 47/100 lender reading.

The Iowa scoring is fully auditable — foreclosure, mortgage, tax-delinquency, lien, bank-exposure and climate signals drawn from public records and aggregated to the county. Given the peak tilt statewide, what matters is where Iowa counties and ZIPs deviate, not the average itself.

Pick a Iowa county to go deeper, or drill straight to a ZIP report. Unlock Iowa to see every distressed parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a score, bank-exposure read and funding-to-closing path.

Whether Iowa runs hot or quiet on distress, every county and ZIP is scored the same deterministic way — recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens, mortgage stress and lender headwind — so Iowa stays directly comparable to any other state you track. The data is auditable end to end: where a Iowa source is thin, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, with nothing modeled to fill a gap.

Drilling into Iowa, the highest-distress counties include Delaware County, Worth County, Louisa County, Tama County, Adams County , and at ZIP level 50007 (33/100), 50009 (33/100), 50021 (33/100), 50023 (33/100), 50032 (33/100) score highest.

The Iowa numbers are not single measures but composites, foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress signals scored separately into one 0–100 reading per market.

The way to act on Iowa doesn't change with the state: start at the county with the sharpest reading, drill to its highest-scoring ZIPs, then to the individual parcels behind those scores , with DLRadar handling scoring, funding and closing from there.

As the scoring is fully auditable, each Iowa number decomposes into the records that produced it — the public foreclosure, tax, lien, price and bank-stress sources — leaving no unexplained or modeled component in the Iowa score.