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

Buchanan County, Iowa is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county's ZIP scores run from 6 up to 22/100. Coverage runs to 16 ZIPs across Buchanan County, a minimal 9/100 average. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 53/100 (moderate).

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

Near the cycle top at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 53/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Buchanan County are 52218 (22/100), 52352 (20/100), 50626 (12/100), 50662 (12/100), 50654 (10/100), 50629 (9/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 50648, 50671, 50607, 50641, 50644, 50650, 50682, 52210, 52326, 52329 among others.

By the numbers, the Buchanan County ZIPs on file run 9.7% of units sitting vacant, 8.4% of households below the poverty line, 81% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 42.3, incomes around $75,868, typical home values near $166,119. Numbers like these set up which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Net of it all, 9/100 over 16 ZIPs means Buchanan County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Buchanan County parcel: owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Treat Buchanan County, Iowa as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. The Buchanan 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 Buchanan County are 52218 (22/100), 52352 (20/100), 50626 (12/100), 50662 (12/100), 50654 (10/100), 50629 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 50648, 50671, 50607, 50641, 50644, 50650, 50682, 52210 and more 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.

DLRadar's composite for Buchanan 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.