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

Johnson County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Coverage runs to 24 ZIPs across Johnson County, a low 18/100 average. ZIP-level distress ranges from 26/100 at the top down to 11/100. On bank and credit headwind, Johnson County scores 22/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.3% over twelve months, at 29/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, broad sweeps stop paying as the ZIP scores below show.

At +2.3% YoY and 29/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A contained 22/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Johnson County are 52227 (26/100), 52404 (26/100), 52228 (24/100), 52766 (21/100), 52338 (19/100), 52776 (19/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 52235, 52240, 52241, 52242, 52245, 52246, 52253, 52317, 52322, 52333.

On the housing-and-income side, the Johnson County ZIPs on file report median home values around $278,500 (below the national figure), an owner-occupied share of 72%, residents with a median age around 37.6, a median household income near $74,864 (near the US norm), 10.7% of households below the poverty line, a 5.8% vacancy rate. Income, equity and tenure like these shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Johnson County, Iowa's 18/100 average over 24 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Johnson County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Because Johnson County, Iowa is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Johnson County against neighboring markets or the rest of Iowa on equal footing.

The point of scoring Johnson County, Iowa is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. Provenance for Johnson County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Johnson County leads with 52227 (26/100), 52404 (26/100), 52228 (24/100), 52766 (21/100), 52338 (19/100), 52776 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 52235, 52240, 52241, 52242, 52245, 52246, 52253, 52317 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.

The Johnson 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.