Adair County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Adair County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Lender pressure in Adair County registers 12/100 — a low bank-stress headwind. Coverage runs to 14 ZIPs across Adair County, a minimal 12/100 average. The county's ZIP scores run from 8 up to 16/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.5% over the past year, at 28/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Lender stress at 12/100 (low) points the search to tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Highest scores land in 50070 (16/100), 50155 (15/100), 50273 (15/100), 50020 (14/100), 50846 (13/100), 50849 (13/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 50858, 50837, 50250, 50002, 50048, 50164, 50859, 50801.

On the housing-and-income side, the Adair County ZIPs on file show a median household income near $69,835 (near the US norm), 9.2% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 46.4, home values averaging roughly $156,821, below the US, vacancy near 11.3%, an owner-occupied share of 82%. Taken together, they signal the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Adair County, Iowa's 12/100 average over 14 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Adair County property carries owner, address and APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

The distress read for Adair County, Iowa is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Adair County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

In Adair County, Iowa, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. The Adair County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Adair County leads with 50070 (16/100), 50155 (15/100), 50273 (15/100), 50020 (14/100), 50846 (13/100), 50849 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 50858, 50837, 50250, 50002, 50048, 50164, 50859, 50801 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Adair County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.