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

Lucas County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Coverage runs to 9 ZIPs across Lucas County, a minimal 7/100 average. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 39/100. ZIP-level distress ranges from 14/100 at the top down to 4/100.

In its peak phase, Lucas County home prices rose 2.5% across the last year, a 28/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Lucas County flat at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. A moderate 39/100 lender headwind means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Lucas County are 50139 (14/100), 52569 (11/100), 50275 (9/100), 50151 (8/100), 50123 (6/100), 50049 (5/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Also scored across the county: 50272, 50068, 50238.

On the housing-and-income side, Lucas County's tracked footprint show median home values around $117,988 (below the national figure), 19% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 46.8, household income averaging about $66,960, below the national median, 90% of homes owner-occupied, 14.2% of households below the poverty line. Numbers like these frame the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

With a minimal 7/100 reading over 9 ZIPs, Lucas County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lucas County parcel: owner, address and APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

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

The practical read on Lucas County, Iowa is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. What supports the Lucas County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Lucas County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 50139 (14/100), 52569 (11/100), 50275 (9/100), 50151 (8/100), 50123 (6/100), 50049 (5/100). DLRadar also scores 50272, 50068, 50238 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.

DLRadar's composite for Lucas 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.