Dallas County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Dallas County, IA, Iowa: 25 ZIP codes scored, Dallas County, IA averaging 22/100 (low, Dallas, IA), from 10 to 31. Dallas County, IA is in its peak phase (Dallas, IA confidence 15/100): Dallas, IA home prices up 2.1% (Dallas, IA) over twelve months. Dallas County, IA lender headwind: 66/100.
Highest-scoring Dallas County, IA ZIPs: 50109 (31/100), 50111 (31/100), 50325 (31/100), 50323 (30/100), 50266 (28/100), 50003 (25/100). Also scored in Dallas County, IA: 50038, 50063, 50066, 50069, 50167, 50263, 50039, 50146, 50233, 50220.
Across Dallas County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $289,704, household income $110,131, 8.7% vacancy, 6.3% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 40.8.
Dallas County, IA insurance distress 57/100 (#973 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Dallas, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Dallas County, IA since 2023; 3 Dallas, IA NFIP flood claims, $277K paid; Dallas, IA construction distress 44/100.
28 banks with 43 branches lend in Dallas County, IA; Dallas, IA weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 94/100 in Dallas, IA.
Dallas County, IA unemployment 3.4% (Dallas, IA +0.4 pts, six months); 1,045 new housing units permitted in Dallas County, IA over twelve months, Dallas, IA up 12% from 933; Dallas, IA home prices +8.0% a year (Dallas, IA) over three years.
44,804 housing units in Dallas County, IA; 12,471 Dallas, IA renter households; 34% of Dallas, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 14% (Dallas, IA) half or more.
Dallas County, IA ranks #2,175 nationally on the opportunity index (Dallas, IA, among all ranked counties); Dallas, IA scores 27.1/100 and Dallas, IA sits #53 inside Iowa. Dallas, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Dallas, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Dallas, IA second driver construction; Dallas, IA moved up 285 places. 43 short-sale listings across Dallas, IA; 59 days on market observed in Dallas, IA; 5.3% vacancy over 25 Dallas, IA ZIPs.
0.6% of Dallas County, IA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Dallas, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.0% (CFPB county sample). Dallas, IA's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Dallas, IA peak since 2008 was 3.0% in July 2009; Iowa overall reads 0.9%.
Dallas County, IA has 21 watched banks; 21 Dallas, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Dallas, IA footprints: Earlham Savings Bank (5 branches, stress 71) in Dallas, IA; Raccoon Valley Bank (3 branches, stress 60) in Dallas, IA; Peoples Bank (2 branches, stress 74) in Dallas, IA.
HUD lists 9 assisted multifamily properties in Dallas County, IA with 1,366 units.
2,333 of the 44,804 housing units in Dallas, IA sit vacant. Dallas County, IA permitted 433 multifamily units in twelve months; Dallas, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 612 units in Dallas County, IA.