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

Clinton County, Iowa is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 77 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading. DLRadar scores 21 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 21/100. Individual Clinton County ZIPs score between 15 and 22 on the 0–100 composite.

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 with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Clinton County's topped-out +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. Bank stress at 77/100 signals what's coming: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Leading Clinton County on distress: 52037 (22/100), 52254 (22/100), 52701 (22/100), 52727 (22/100), 52729 (22/100), 52730 (22/100). Also scored across the county: 52731, 52732, 52742, 52750, 52751, 52757, 52771, 52774, 52777, 52060.

Profile-wise, the Clinton County ZIPs on file come in at a median household income near $67,483 (below the US norm), 10% of households below the poverty line, a 9.7% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 42.5, home values averaging roughly $155,910, below the US, an owner-occupied share of 78%. Income, equity and tenure like these shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Clinton County, Iowa's 21/100 average over 21 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Clinton County parcel: owner, address and APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

Because Clinton County, Iowa is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Clinton County against neighboring markets or the rest of Iowa on equal footing.

The way to work Clinton County, Iowa is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 22/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Clinton County with undifferentiated outreach. Every Clinton County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Clinton County are 52037 (22/100), 52254 (22/100), 52701 (22/100), 52727 (22/100), 52729 (22/100), 52730 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 52731, 52732, 52742, 52750, 52751, 52757, 52771, 52774 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 Clinton 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.