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

For Grundy County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. There are 17 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 13/100). The county's ZIP scores run from 10 up to 21/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 59/100.

In its peak phase, Grundy County home prices rose 1.9% across the last year, at 18/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

At +1.9% YoY and 18/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 59/100 points to both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 50604 (21/100), 50660 (21/100), 50665 (19/100), 50601 (16/100), 50609 (15/100), 50627 (14/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Other tracked Grundy County ZIPs include 50669, 50672, 50621, 50613, 50643, 50624, 50638, 50642, 50657, 50673.

Demographically, Grundy County's scored ZIPs come in at 83% owner-occupancy, household income averaging about $77,932, roughly at the national median, median home values around $184,182 (below the national figure), 8.7% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 42.1, poverty running near 8.4%. Numbers like these drive who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 13/100 over 17 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Grundy County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

Whether Grundy County, Iowa carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Grundy County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Grundy County, Iowa is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Grundy County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Grundy 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, Grundy County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 50604 (21/100), 50660 (21/100), 50665 (19/100), 50601 (16/100), 50609 (15/100), 50627 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 50669, 50672, 50621, 50613, 50643, 50624, 50638, 50642 and more 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.

The Grundy 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.