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

Every ZIP in Greene County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 53 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. There are 13 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 14/100). ZIP-level distress ranges from 23/100 at the top down to 6/100.

Currently peak, Greene County saw prices rise 2.5% year over year, at 28/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Greene County's topped-out +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 53/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 50220 (23/100), 51453 (19/100), 50050 (16/100), 50064 (16/100), 50107 (16/100), 50129 (16/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Other tracked Greene County ZIPs include 50217, 51462, 50235, 50128, 50058, 50026, 50029.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Greene County come in at vacancy near 13.7%, an owner-occupied share of 76%, household income averaging about $65,438, below the national median, residents with a median age around 45.6, 12.4% of households below the poverty line, home values averaging roughly $131,785, below the US. Taken together, they frame where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

At 14/100 composite over 13 ZIPs, Greene County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Greene County parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

For anyone buying in Greene County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 23/100. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Greene County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Greene County leads with 50220 (23/100), 51453 (19/100), 50050 (16/100), 50064 (16/100), 50107 (16/100), 50129 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 50217, 51462, 50235, 50128, 50058, 50026, 50029 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.

The Greene County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.