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

For Dubuque County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. ZIP-level distress ranges from 24/100 at the top down to 15/100. There are 20 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 21/100). Bank/credit headwind for the county is 67 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading.

The neutral-phase county posted home values that rose 4.8% over twelve months, at 28/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, distress turns selective as the ZIP scores below show.

At +4.8% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. Bank stress at 67/100 favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 52001 (24/100), ZIP 52002 (24/100), ZIP 52003 (24/100), ZIP 52039 (24/100), ZIP 52045 (24/100), ZIP 52046 (24/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Coverage extends to 52056, 52068, 52073, 52053, 52065, 52078, 52040, 52079, 52032, 52031 among others.

Profile-wise, the Dubuque County ZIPs on file come in at vacancy near 7.4%, 85% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $78,257 (near the US norm), a median age of 42.7, a 7.7% poverty rate, median home values around $248,885 (below the national figure). Taken together, they drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 21/100 over 20 ZIPs, Dubuque County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Unlock Dubuque County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Dubuque County, Iowa is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Dubuque County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Provenance for Dubuque County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Dubuque County leads with 52001 (24/100), 52002 (24/100), 52003 (24/100), 52039 (24/100), 52045 (24/100), 52046 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 52056, 52068, 52073, 52053, 52065, 52078, 52040, 52079 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Dubuque 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.