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

Calhoun County, Iowa is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. 15 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 17/100 distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 10 to 20 out of 100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 29/100.

In its peak phase, Calhoun County home prices rose 2.5% across the last year, at 28/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

With Calhoun County flat at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. A contained 29/100 bank headwind points the search to tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Top distress by ZIP runs 50551 (20/100), 50552 (20/100), 50579 (20/100), 50575 (19/100), 51449 (19/100), 51453 (19/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. The breakdown continues through 50540, 50538, 50563, 50586, 50050, 50561, 51433, 50583, 50566 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Calhoun County come in at vacancy near 16.9%, residents with a median age around 44.6, median home values around $112,007 (below the national figure), poverty running near 14.7%, an owner-occupied share of 80%, a median household income near $69,443 (near the US norm). Taken together, they frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

With a low 17/100 reading over 15 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Calhoun County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

Whether Calhoun County, Iowa carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Calhoun County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Read Calhoun County, Iowa as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 17/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Calhoun 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.

Drilling in, Calhoun County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 50551 (20/100), 50552 (20/100), 50579 (20/100), 50575 (19/100), 51449 (19/100), 51453 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 50540, 50538, 50563, 50586, 50050, 50561, 51433, 50583 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Calhoun 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.