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

Hardin County, Iowa is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. There are 13 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 16/100). Bank/credit headwind for the county is 59 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. ZIP-level distress ranges from 25/100 at the top down to 10/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.5% over twelve months, at 28/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, distress turns selective as the ZIP scores below show.

With Hardin County flat at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 59/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The sharpest Hardin County readings come from 50154 (25/100), 50230 (20/100), 50258 (19/100), 50206 (18/100), 50601 (16/100), 50102 (15/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 50122, 50269, 50006, 50126, 50627, 50672, 50680 among others.

On the housing-and-income side, the Hardin County ZIPs on file run home values averaging roughly $131,038, below the US, 81% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 47.2, a median household income near $69,236 (near the US norm), a 6.5% poverty rate, a 12.9% vacancy rate. Numbers like these drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Net of it all, 16/100 over 13 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Hardin County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Hardin County, Iowa's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. The Hardin County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Hardin County leads with 50154 (25/100), 50230 (20/100), 50258 (19/100), 50206 (18/100), 50601 (16/100), 50102 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 50122, 50269, 50006, 50126, 50627, 50672, 50680 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.

DLRadar's composite for Hardin 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.