Delaware County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Delaware County, IA, Iowa: 17 ZIP codes scored, Delaware County, IA averaging 18/100 (low, Delaware, IA), from 12 to 20. Delaware County, IA is in its peak phase (Delaware, IA confidence 28/100): Delaware, IA home prices up 2.5% (Delaware, IA) over twelve months. Delaware County, IA lender headwind: 95/100.
Highest-scoring Delaware County, IA ZIPs: 52065 (20/100), 52218 (20/100), 52036 (19/100), 52038 (19/100), 52041 (19/100), 52050 (19/100). Also scored in Delaware County, IA: 52057, 52078, 52223, 52330, 52040, 52237, 52035, 52042, 52076, 52310.
Across Delaware County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $192,235, household income $76,927, 10.4% vacancy, 6.5% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 43.6.
Delaware County, IA insurance distress 21/100 (#2,087 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Delaware, IA; 1 Delaware, IA NFIP flood claims, $26K paid; Delaware, IA construction distress 58/100.
6 banks with 11 branches lend in Delaware County, IA; Delaware, IA weighted bank stress 69/100, highest 78/100 in Delaware, IA.
Delaware County, IA unemployment 2.6% (Delaware, IA -1.0 pts, six months); 35 new housing units permitted in Delaware County, IA over twelve months, Delaware, IA down 19% from 43; Delaware, IA home prices +11.0% a year (Delaware, IA) over three years.
8,169 housing units in Delaware County, IA; 1,265 Delaware, IA renter households; 41% of Delaware, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Delaware, IA) half or more.
Delaware County, IA ranks #2,920 nationally on the opportunity index (Delaware, IA, among all ranked counties); Delaware, IA scores 23.7/100 and Delaware, IA sits #88 inside Iowa. Delaware, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Delaware, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Delaware, IA second driver construction; Delaware, IA moved down 910 places. 1 short-sale listings across Delaware, IA; 4 days on market observed in Delaware, IA; 10.4% vacancy over 17 Delaware, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Delaware County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Delaware, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Delaware, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Delaware, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Delaware County, IA has 6 watched banks; 6 Delaware, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Delaware, IA footprints: Citizens State Bank (3 branches, stress 78) in Delaware, IA; Community Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 74) in Delaware, IA; Farmers Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 75) in Delaware, IA.
800 of the 8,169 housing units in Delaware, IA sit vacant. Delaware County, IA permitted 16 multifamily units in twelve months; Delaware, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 19 units in Delaware County, IA.