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

Kossuth County, Iowa is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Individual Kossuth County ZIPs score between 12 and 24 on the 0–100 composite. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 11/100 — low. There are 21 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 21/100).

In its peak phase, Kossuth County home prices rose 2.5% across the last year (phase confidence 28/100). At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. A low 11/100 bank headwind favors owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 50597 (24/100), ZIP 50539 (23/100), ZIP 50598 (23/100), ZIP 50451 (22/100), ZIP 50480 (22/100), ZIP 50511 (22/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Coverage extends to 50517, 50522, 50556, 50559, 50560, 50590, 50483, 50519, 50570, 50424 among others.

Underneath the scores, Kossuth County's scored ZIPs report median home values around $112,360 (below the national figure), poverty running near 12.6%, 79% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 45, 12.7% of units sitting vacant, household income averaging about $64,636, below the national median. Numbers like these drive the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

All in at 21/100 over 21 ZIPs, Kossuth County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Kossuth County parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Kossuth County, Iowa's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. All Kossuth County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

Drilling in, Kossuth County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 50597 (24/100), 50539 (23/100), 50598 (23/100), 50451 (22/100), 50480 (22/100), 50511 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 50517, 50522, 50556, 50559, 50560, 50590, 50483, 50519 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.

Under Kossuth County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.