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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Henry County, Iowa using verifiable public-record signals alone. DLRadar scores 12 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 11/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 34 on a 0–100 scale, a contained reading. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 7 to 23 out of 100.

In its peak phase, Henry County home prices rose 2.5% across the last year, at 28/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Henry County's topped-out +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence) means opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A contained 34/100 bank headwind favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The sharpest Henry County readings come from 52623 (23/100), 52645 (15/100), 52635 (14/100), 52644 (12/100), 52654 (10/100), 52656 (10/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Further scored ZIPs: 52641, 52647, 52652, 52649, 52659, 52630.

On the housing-and-income side, Henry County's tracked footprint show a 9.7% vacancy rate, an owner-occupied share of 78%, median home values around $158,282 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 42.2, a 9.1% poverty rate, a median household income near $68,956 (near the US norm). These fundamentals signal the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Henry County, Iowa's 11/100 average over 12 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Henry County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Henry 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 Henry County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Scores in Henry County, Iowa exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Nothing in the Henry County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Henry County are 52623 (23/100), 52645 (15/100), 52635 (14/100), 52644 (12/100), 52654 (10/100), 52656 (10/100). DLRadar also scores 52641, 52647, 52652, 52649, 52659, 52630 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Henry 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.