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

Audubon County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Coverage runs to 12 ZIPs across Audubon County, a minimal 11/100 average. The county's ZIP scores run from 8 up to 16/100. On bank and credit headwind, Audubon County scores 20/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.5% over twelve months (phase confidence 28/100). On a market plateau, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A contained 20/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

The sharpest Audubon County readings come from 51455 (16/100), 50022 (15/100), 50020 (14/100), 51531 (12/100), 50042 (11/100), 51543 (11/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Other tracked Audubon County ZIPs include 50025, 50076, 50110, 50117, 50002, 50058.

Underneath the scores, Audubon County's scored ZIPs run 80% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $63,464 (below the US norm), residents with a median age around 47.3, a 10.9% poverty rate, home values averaging roughly $148,925, below the US, a 15.5% vacancy rate. These fundamentals set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a minimal 11/100 reading over 12 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Audubon County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

Because Audubon County, Iowa is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Audubon County against neighboring markets or the rest of Iowa on equal footing.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Audubon County, Iowa's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. The Audubon County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Audubon County are 51455 (16/100), 50022 (15/100), 50020 (14/100), 51531 (12/100), 50042 (11/100), 51543 (11/100). DLRadar also scores 50025, 50076, 50110, 50117, 50002, 50058 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Audubon County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.