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

Butler County, Iowa is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. There are 18 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 20/100). ZIP-level distress ranges from 24/100 at the top down to 11/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 73 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading.

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

With Butler County flat at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Bank stress at 73/100 is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

By composite, 50602 (24/100), 50608 (24/100), 50611 (24/100), 50619 (24/100), 50649 (24/100), 50625 (23/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Butler County ZIPs include 50670, 50433, 50604, 50660, 50605, 50636, 50665, 50601, 50666, 50677.

Profile-wise, the Butler County ZIPs on file come in at 9.3% of units sitting vacant, 83% owner-occupancy, household income averaging about $75,152, roughly at the national median, residents with a median age around 46.4, median home values around $156,844 (below the national figure), 9.5% of households below the poverty line. Read together, they frame which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Net of it all, 20/100 over 18 ZIPs means Butler County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Butler County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

The point of scoring Butler County, Iowa is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. The Butler County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Butler County are 50602 (24/100), 50608 (24/100), 50611 (24/100), 50619 (24/100), 50649 (24/100), 50625 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 50670, 50433, 50604, 50660, 50605, 50636, 50665, 50601 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.

Under Butler 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.