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

For Ida County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 64 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 13/100 composite distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 3 to 29 out of 100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.5% over twelve months (phase confidence 28/100). This late in the run, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Bank stress at 64/100 signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Highest scores land in 51016 (29/100), 51019 (28/100), 51018 (19/100), 51061 (16/100), 51461 (15/100), 51448 (13/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Other tracked Ida County ZIPs include 51006, 51053, 51020, 51025, 51431, 51445.

Demographically, Ida County's scored ZIPs run household income averaging about $66,881, below the national median, vacancy near 10.3%, a 13% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 43.6, 79% of homes owner-occupied, home values averaging roughly $127,508, below the US. Read together, they signal where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

At 13/100 composite over 12 ZIPs, Ida County is a screen-by-ZIP market rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Ida County property carries owner, APN and address, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

Ida County, Iowa is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Ida County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. All Ida County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

Drilling in, Ida County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 51016 (29/100), 51019 (28/100), 51018 (19/100), 51061 (16/100), 51461 (15/100), 51448 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 51006, 51053, 51020, 51025, 51431, 51445 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 Ida 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.