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

Every ZIP in Dickinson County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Individual Dickinson County ZIPs score between 23 and 28 on the 0–100 composite. The county spans 10 scored ZIP codes, averaging 27/100 composite distress. Lender pressure in Dickinson County registers 74/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.7% over twelve months, a 21/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. An elevated 74/100 reading signals what's coming: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Highest scores land in 51331 (28/100), 51347 (28/100), 51351 (28/100), 51355 (28/100), 51360 (28/100), 51363 (28/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 51364, 51338, 51334, 51345.

By the numbers, Dickinson County's tracked footprint report poverty running near 6.8%, a 27.7% vacancy rate, a median household income near $69,461 (near the US norm), median home values around $223,500 (below the national figure), a median age of 49.3, an owner-occupied share of 78%. Read together, they frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 27/100 over 10 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Dickinson County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Scores in Dickinson County, Iowa exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Every Dickinson County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

Drilling in, Dickinson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 51331 (28/100), 51347 (28/100), 51351 (28/100), 51355 (28/100), 51360 (28/100), 51363 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 51364, 51338, 51334, 51345 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Dickinson 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.