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

Fremont County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. There are 11 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 11/100). The county's lending-headwind score sits at 65/100 (elevated). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 10 to 13 out of 100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.5% over the past year, a 28/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. An elevated 65/100 reading signals what's coming: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The sharpest Fremont County readings come from 51645 (13/100), 51601 (12/100), 51647 (12/100), 51653 (12/100), 51639 (10/100), 51640 (10/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Also scored across the county: 51648, 51649, 51650, 51652, 51654.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Fremont County show a median age of 48.6, an owner-occupied share of 82%, a 11% vacancy rate, a median household income near $67,979 (below the US norm), home values averaging roughly $146,756, below the US, a 7% poverty rate. Numbers like these frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

With a minimal 11/100 reading over 11 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Fremont County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

No county is too small to score: Fremont County, Iowa runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Fremont County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Iowa.

The point of scoring Fremont County, Iowa is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. The Fremont County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

Drilling in, Fremont County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 51645 (13/100), 51601 (12/100), 51647 (12/100), 51653 (12/100), 51639 (10/100), 51640 (10/100). DLRadar also scores 51648, 51649, 51650, 51652, 51654 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.

Under Fremont County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.