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

Every ZIP in Decatur County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 30 on a 0–100 scale, a contained reading. ZIP-level distress ranges from 12/100 at the top down to 6/100. There are 11 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 9/100).

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.5% over the past year (phase confidence 28/100). This late in the run, broad sweeps stop paying — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A steady 30/100 bank reading favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Leading Decatur County on distress: 50133 (12/100), 50140 (11/100), 50065 (9/100), 50067 (9/100), 50103 (9/100), 50108 (9/100). Coverage extends to 50144, 50262, 50264, 50123, 50147 among others.

Demographically, Decatur County's scored ZIPs report incomes around $57,632, residents with a median age around 41.3, poverty running near 17.3%, median home values around $102,573 (below the national figure), a 16.2% vacancy rate, an owner-occupied share of 78%. Numbers like these signal the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 9/100 composite over 11 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. Unlock Decatur County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

Decatur County, Iowa is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Decatur County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Decatur County data is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Decatur County are 50133 (12/100), 50140 (11/100), 50065 (9/100), 50067 (9/100), 50103 (9/100), 50108 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 50144, 50262, 50264, 50123, 50147 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 Decatur 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.