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

Every ZIP in Lee County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. 13 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 9/100 distress. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 33/100 (contained). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 7 to 10 out of 100.

Currently peak, Lee County saw prices rise 2.7% year over year, a 21/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Lender stress at 33/100 (contained) favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The sharpest Lee County readings come from 52619 (10/100), 52624 (10/100), 52625 (10/100), 52627 (10/100), 52631 (10/100), 52632 (10/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Other tracked Lee County ZIPs include 52639, 52656, 52657, 52658, 52649, 52626, 52630.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Lee County come in at typical home values near $165,685, an owner-occupied share of 85%, 9.3% of units sitting vacant, 8.5% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 45.6, household income averaging about $60,715, below the national median. Numbers like these frame the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Lee County, Iowa's 9/100 average over 13 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lee County parcel: owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

Approach Lee County by rank rather than by average — the 9/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. These Lee County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Lee County leads with 52619 (10/100), 52624 (10/100), 52625 (10/100), 52627 (10/100), 52631 (10/100), 52632 (10/100). DLRadar also scores 52639, 52656, 52657, 52658, 52649, 52626, 52630 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 Lee 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.