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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Guthrie County, Iowa using verifiable public-record signals alone. On bank and credit headwind, Guthrie County scores 49/100. 18 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 12/100 distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 6 to 26 out of 100.

In its peak phase, Guthrie County home prices rose 2.1% across the last year, at 15/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, distress turns selective — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +2.1% YoY (15/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 49/100 lender reading implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

By composite, 50146 (26/100), 50233 (25/100), 50070 (16/100), 50129 (16/100), 50020 (14/100), 50128 (13/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 50277, 50025, 50076, 50250, 50002, 50048, 50164, 50058, 50026, 50029.

Demographically, Guthrie County's tracked footprint report a median household income near $69,542 (near the US norm), a median age of 45.9, poverty running near 11.5%, vacancy near 11.2%, home values averaging roughly $167,367, below the US, 81% owner-occupancy. Income, equity and tenure like these shape both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Guthrie County, Iowa's 12/100 average over 18 ZIPs says the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Guthrie County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

The distress read for Guthrie County, Iowa is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Guthrie County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

The point of scoring Guthrie County, Iowa is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. Provenance for Guthrie County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Guthrie County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 50146 (26/100), 50233 (25/100), 50070 (16/100), 50129 (16/100), 50020 (14/100), 50128 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 50277, 50025, 50076, 50250, 50002, 50048, 50164, 50058 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.

DLRadar's composite for Guthrie 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.