Cerro Gordo County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Cerro Gordo County, Iowa is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Individual Cerro Gordo County ZIPs score between 9 and 24 on the 0–100 composite. The county spans 17 scored ZIP codes, averaging 20/100 composite distress. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 65/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.7% over the past year, at 21/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Cerro Gordo County's topped-out +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence) means opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. Its 65/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

By composite, 50458 (24/100), 50433 (22/100), 50468 (22/100), 50401 (21/100), 50428 (21/100), 50457 (21/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Cerro Gordo County ZIPs include 50467, 50469, 50477, 50482, 50434, 50449, 50464, 50475, 50479, 50444.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Cerro Gordo County report household income averaging about $68,024, below the national median, a 13.7% vacancy rate, home values averaging roughly $154,425, below the US, 80% owner-occupancy, a 10.8% poverty rate, a median age of 41.9. Read together, they shape both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Net of it all, 20/100 over 17 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Cerro Gordo County parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

In Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. What supports the Cerro Gordo County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Cerro Gordo County are 50458 (24/100), 50433 (22/100), 50468 (22/100), 50401 (21/100), 50428 (21/100), 50457 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 50467, 50469, 50477, 50482, 50434, 50449, 50464, 50475 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.

The Cerro Gordo County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.