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

Dallas County, Iowa is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 66/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. 25 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 24/100 distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 13 to 32 out of 100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.1% over the past year (phase confidence 15/100). This late in the run, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Dallas County's topped-out +2.1% YoY (15/100 confidence) means selectivity rules well beyond the county average. An elevated 66/100 reading is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Top distress by ZIP runs 50111 (32/100), 50325 (32/100), 50109 (31/100), 50266 (30/100), 50323 (30/100), 50003 (28/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Other tracked Dallas County ZIPs include 50038, 50063, 50066, 50069, 50167, 50263, 50039, 50146, 50233, 50220.

On the housing-and-income side, Dallas County's tracked footprint come in at incomes around $110,131, 6.3% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 80%, vacancy near 8.7%, median home values around $289,704 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 40.8. Numbers like these signal both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

With a low 24/100 reading over 25 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Unlock Dallas County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

Treat Dallas County, Iowa as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. Provenance for Dallas 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 Dallas County are 50111 (32/100), 50325 (32/100), 50109 (31/100), 50266 (30/100), 50323 (30/100), 50003 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 50038, 50063, 50066, 50069, 50167, 50263, 50039, 50146 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 Dallas 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.