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

Clarke County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county's ZIP scores run from 6 up to 16/100. DLRadar scores 9 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 11/100. On bank and credit headwind, Clarke County scores 41/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.5% over twelve months (phase confidence 28/100). On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Clarke County's topped-out +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 41/100 points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

By composite, 50210 (16/100), 50222 (15/100), 50257 (13/100), 50108 (9/100), 50174 (9/100), 50213 (9/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 50264, 50275, 50123.

Profile-wise, the Clarke County ZIPs on file run a 12.4% poverty rate, vacancy near 11.3%, household income averaging about $71,398, roughly at the national median, a median age of 42.2, 82% owner-occupancy, median home values around $170,833 (below the national figure). These fundamentals set up how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Clarke County, Iowa's 11/100 average over 9 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Clarke County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

Whether Clarke 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 Clarke County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Scores in Clarke County, Iowa exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Provenance for Clarke 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 Clarke County are 50210 (16/100), 50222 (15/100), 50257 (13/100), 50108 (9/100), 50174 (9/100), 50213 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 50264, 50275, 50123 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 Clarke 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.