Des Moines County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Des Moines County, IA, Iowa: 12 ZIP codes scored, Des Moines County, IA averaging 20/100 (low, Des Moines, IA), from 10 to 25. Des Moines County, IA is in its peak phase (Des Moines, IA confidence 21/100): Des Moines, IA home prices up 2.7% (Des Moines, IA) over twelve months. Des Moines County, IA lender headwind: 68/100.
Highest-scoring Des Moines County, IA ZIPs: 52601 (25/100), 52637 (25/100), 52638 (25/100), 52650 (25/100), 52655 (25/100), 52660 (25/100). Also scored in Des Moines County, IA: 52623, 52646, 52645, 52640, 52644, 52658.
Across Des Moines County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $173,133, household income $62,952, 6.7% vacancy, 9.3% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 44.8.
Des Moines County, IA insurance distress 56/100 (#989 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Des Moines, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Des Moines County, IA since 2023; 16 Des Moines, IA NFIP flood claims, $258K paid; Des Moines, IA construction distress 59/100.
11 banks with 20 branches lend in Des Moines County, IA; Des Moines, IA weighted bank stress 65/100, highest 79/100 in Des Moines, IA.
Des Moines County, IA unemployment 5.2% (Des Moines, IA +1.2 pts, six months); 75 new housing units permitted in Des Moines County, IA over twelve months, Des Moines, IA down 10% from 83; Des Moines, IA home prices +8.5% a year (Des Moines, IA) over three years.
18,802 housing units in Des Moines County, IA; 4,693 Des Moines, IA renter households; 50% of Des Moines, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 32% (Des Moines, IA) half or more.
Des Moines County, IA ranks #1,565 nationally on the opportunity index (Des Moines, IA, among all ranked counties); Des Moines, IA scores 29.2/100 and Des Moines, IA sits #24 inside Iowa. Des Moines, IA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Des Moines, IA's primary driver is construction, Des Moines, IA second driver bank institutional; Des Moines, IA moved up 197 places. 99 days on market observed in Des Moines, IA; 8.3% vacancy over 12 Des Moines, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Des Moines County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Des Moines, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Des Moines, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Des Moines, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Des Moines County, IA has 7 watched banks; 7 Des Moines, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Des Moines, IA footprints: Farmers&Merchants Bank&Trust (4 branches, stress 78) in Des Moines, IA; Mediapolis Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 59) in Des Moines, IA; Bank (2 branches, stress 79) in Des Moines, IA.
HUD lists 4 assisted multifamily properties in Des Moines County, IA with 204 units; 169 Des Moines, IA units are assisted, 1 Des Moines, IA properties under project-based Section 8.
1,624 of the 18,802 housing units in Des Moines, IA sit vacant. Des Moines County, IA permitted 63 multifamily units in twelve months; Des Moines, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 12 units in Des Moines County, IA.