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

Every ZIP in Boone County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county spans 21 scored ZIP codes, averaging 20/100 composite distress. Individual Boone County ZIPs score between 10 and 31 on the 0–100 composite. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 57/100 (moderate).

Currently neutral, Boone County saw prices rise 4.6% year over year, a 42/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

Boone County's topped-out +4.6% YoY (42/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 57/100 implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Leading Boone County on distress: 50244 (31/100), 50039 (27/100), 50243 (26/100), 50134 (25/100), 50248 (24/100), 50014 (23/100). Also scored across the county: 50220, 50249, 50276, 50156, 50036, 50031, 50040, 50064, 50107, 50152.

On the housing-and-income side, Boone County's scored ZIPs run median home values around $186,070 (below the national figure), vacancy near 13.1%, residents with a median age around 43.4, poverty running near 8.1%, 78% owner-occupancy, incomes around $69,833. Read together, they drive the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

At 20/100 composite over 21 ZIPs, Boone County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Boone County parcel's owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

No county is too small to score: Boone County, Iowa runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Boone County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Iowa.

Read Boone County, Iowa as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 20/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Boone County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

The ZIP breakdown for Boone County leads with 50244 (31/100), 50039 (27/100), 50243 (26/100), 50134 (25/100), 50248 (24/100), 50014 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 50220, 50249, 50276, 50156, 50036, 50031, 50040, 50064 and more 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.

Under Boone 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.