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

Cherokee County, Iowa is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 54/100 (moderate). Individual Cherokee County ZIPs score between 5 and 28 on the 0–100 composite. 15 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 19/100 distress.

Currently peak, Cherokee County saw prices rise 2.5% year over year, at 28/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

Cherokee County's topped-out +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence) means opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 54/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 51048 (28/100), 51046 (26/100), 51058 (26/100), 51002 (23/100), 51047 (22/100), 51012 (19/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 51014, 51035, 51037, 51049, 51005, 51029, 51061, 51020, 51025 among others.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Cherokee County come in at poverty running near 10.3%, residents with a median age around 45.3, a median household income near $66,750 (below the US norm), an owner-occupied share of 78%, 12.3% of units sitting vacant, typical home values near $141,950. Read together, they frame the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Cherokee County, Iowa's 19/100 average over 15 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Unlock Cherokee County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

The practical read on Cherokee County, Iowa is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. Provenance for Cherokee County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Cherokee County are 51048 (28/100), 51046 (26/100), 51058 (26/100), 51002 (23/100), 51047 (22/100), 51012 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 51014, 51035, 51037, 51049, 51005, 51029, 51061, 51020 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 Cherokee 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.