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

Carroll County, Iowa is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Lender pressure in Carroll County registers 55/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. There are 17 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 16/100). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 8 to 19 out of 100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.7% over the past year, at 21/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 55/100 lender reading means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 51449 (19/100), 51453 (19/100), 51401 (17/100), 51430 (17/100), 51440 (17/100), 51443 (17/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 51444, 51451, 51452, 51459, 51463, 50050, 51436, 51455, 51462, 51467 and more.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Carroll County come in at vacancy near 11.8%, a median age of 42.3, household income averaging about $67,789, below the national median, 83% of homes owner-occupied, a 10% poverty rate, home values averaging roughly $145,388, below the US. These fundamentals frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 16/100 over 17 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Carroll County parcel: owner, address and APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

For anyone buying in Carroll County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 19/100. The Carroll 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.

The ZIP breakdown for Carroll County leads with 51449 (19/100), 51453 (19/100), 51401 (17/100), 51430 (17/100), 51440 (17/100), 51443 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 51444, 51451, 51452, 51459, 51463, 50050, 51436, 51455 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 Carroll 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.