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

Every ZIP in Jackson County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. 16 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 19/100 distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 28 on a 0–100 scale, a contained reading. Individual Jackson County ZIPs score between 17 and 22 on the 0–100 composite.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.5% over twelve months, a 28/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

With Jackson County flat at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A steady 28/100 bank reading favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

By composite, 52037 (22/100), 52731 (22/100), 52060 (20/100), 52064 (20/100), 52069 (20/100), 52070 (20/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 52079, 52207, 52032, 52030, 52031, 52054, 52071, 52074, 52075, 52309.

Underneath the scores, Jackson County's tracked footprint run typical home values near $174,550, household income averaging about $75,835, roughly at the national median, an owner-occupied share of 84%, residents with a median age around 49.2, a 10.5% poverty rate, a 8.7% vacancy rate. Numbers like these signal where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

With a low 19/100 reading over 16 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. Unlock Jackson County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

Jackson County, Iowa is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Jackson County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Jackson County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

Drilling in, Jackson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 52037 (22/100), 52731 (22/100), 52060 (20/100), 52064 (20/100), 52069 (20/100), 52070 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 52079, 52207, 52032, 52030, 52031, 52054, 52071, 52074 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.

The Jackson 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.