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

For Delaware County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Coverage runs to 17 ZIPs across Delaware County, a low 17/100 average. Individual Delaware County ZIPs score between 10 and 22 on the 0–100 composite. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 95/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally.

Currently peak, Delaware County saw prices rise 2.5% year over year, at 28/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, distress turns selective so screen ZIP by ZIP.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Its 95/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 52065 (22/100), ZIP 52218 (22/100), ZIP 52078 (21/100), ZIP 52040 (20/100), ZIP 52036 (18/100), ZIP 52038 (18/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Coverage extends to 52041, 52057, 52223, 52330, 52050, 52237, 52035, 52042, 52076, 52310 among others.

Underneath the scores, the Delaware County ZIPs on file run home values averaging roughly $192,235, below the US, a 10.4% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 43.6, a 6.5% poverty rate, an owner-occupied share of 83%, a median household income near $76,927 (near the US norm). Taken together, they set up the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

Delaware County, Iowa's 17/100 average over 17 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Delaware County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

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

Read Delaware County, Iowa as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 17/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Delaware County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Delaware County are 52065 (22/100), 52218 (22/100), 52078 (21/100), 52040 (20/100), 52036 (18/100), 52038 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 52041, 52057, 52223, 52330, 52050, 52237, 52035, 52042 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.

Under Delaware County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.