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

Iowa County, Iowa is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Individual Iowa County ZIPs score between 11 and 20 on the 0–100 composite. The county spans 21 scored ZIP codes, averaging 17/100 composite distress. Lender pressure in Iowa County registers 8/100 — a low bank-stress headwind.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.5% over the past year, at 28/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Lender stress at 8/100 (low) puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.

By composite, 52208 (20/100), 52209 (19/100), 52318 (19/100), 52220 (18/100), 52221 (18/100), 52222 (18/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 52236, 52251, 52301, 52307, 52308, 52322, 52334, 52347, 52361, 52316.

Profile-wise, the Iowa County ZIPs on file run incomes around $71,341, residents with a median age around 43.5, a 8% poverty rate, 79% owner-occupancy, vacancy near 8.2%, median home values around $176,095 (below the national figure). Numbers like these shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

With a low 17/100 reading over 21 ZIPs, Iowa County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Iowa County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

For anyone buying in Iowa County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 20/100. Provenance for Iowa County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Iowa County leads with 52208 (20/100), 52209 (19/100), 52318 (19/100), 52220 (18/100), 52221 (18/100), 52222 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 52236, 52251, 52301, 52307, 52308, 52322, 52334, 52347 and more 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 Iowa 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.