Dubuque County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Dubuque County, IA, Iowa: 20 ZIP codes scored, Dubuque County, IA averaging 20/100 (low, Dubuque, IA), from 14 to 22. Dubuque County, IA is in its neutral phase (Dubuque, IA confidence 28/100): Dubuque, IA home prices up 4.8% (Dubuque, IA) over twelve months. Dubuque County, IA lender headwind: 67/100.
Highest-scoring Dubuque County, IA ZIPs: 52001 (22/100), 52002 (22/100), 52003 (22/100), 52039 (22/100), 52045 (22/100), 52046 (22/100). Also scored in Dubuque County, IA: 52056, 52068, 52073, 52053, 52065, 52078, 52079, 52032, 52040, 52237.
Across Dubuque County, IA's scored ZIPs: median home value $248,885, household income $78,257, 7.4% vacancy, 7.7% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 42.7.
Dubuque County, IA insurance distress 55/100 (#1,001 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Dubuque, IA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Dubuque County, IA since 2023; 5 Dubuque, IA NFIP flood claims, $133K paid; Dubuque, IA construction distress 14/100.
9 banks with 32 branches lend in Dubuque County, IA; Dubuque, IA weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 78/100 in Dubuque, IA.
Dubuque County, IA unemployment 3.5% (Dubuque, IA -0.2 pts, six months); 638 new housing units permitted in Dubuque County, IA over twelve months, Dubuque, IA up 37% from 465; Dubuque, IA home prices +8.5% a year (Dubuque, IA) over three years.
43,288 housing units in Dubuque County, IA; 10,890 Dubuque, IA renter households; 42% of Dubuque, IA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Dubuque, IA) half or more.
Dubuque County, IA ranks #2,179 nationally on the opportunity index (Dubuque, IA, among all ranked counties); Dubuque, IA scores 27.1/100 and Dubuque, IA sits #54 inside Iowa. Dubuque, IA is in the weak opportunity phase; Dubuque, IA's primary driver is bank institutional, Dubuque, IA second driver listings discount; Dubuque, IA moved up 632 places. 36 short-sale listings across Dubuque, IA; 12 days on market observed in Dubuque, IA; 6.0% vacancy over 20 Dubuque, IA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Dubuque County, IA. The non-metro area reading for Dubuque, IA: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Dubuque, IA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Dubuque, IA, December 2025 data); Iowa overall 0.9%.
Dubuque County, IA has 6 watched banks; 6 Dubuque, IA banks sit in an elevated band. Dubuque, IA footprints: Fidelity Bank&Trust (8 branches, stress 63) in Dubuque, IA; Premier Bank (3 branches, stress 75) in Dubuque, IA; Community Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 74) in Dubuque, IA.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Dubuque County, IA with 50 units.
2,299 of the 43,288 housing units in Dubuque, IA sit vacant. Dubuque County, IA permitted 481 multifamily units in twelve months; Dubuque, IA's one-to-four unit structures added 157 units in Dubuque County, IA.