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

For Lyon County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Coverage runs to 12 ZIPs across Lyon County, a low 21/100 average. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 69/100 (elevated). Individual Lyon County ZIPs score between 18 and 22 on the 0–100 composite.

Currently peak, Lyon County saw prices rise 2.5% year over year, a 28/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. Bank stress at 69/100 favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The sharpest Lyon County readings come from 51230 (22/100), 51237 (22/100), 51241 (22/100), 51242 (22/100), 51246 (22/100), 51232 (21/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Also scored across the county: 51235, 51239, 51243, 51247, 51201, 51240.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Lyon County come in at typical home values near $203,325, 84% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 39.9, poverty running near 6%, incomes around $74,241, a 7.3% vacancy rate. These fundamentals frame who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 21/100 over 12 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Lyon County property carries owner, address and APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Approach Lyon County by rank rather than by average — the 21/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Lyon County data is thin.

Drilling in, Lyon County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 51230 (22/100), 51237 (22/100), 51241 (22/100), 51242 (22/100), 51246 (22/100), 51232 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 51235, 51239, 51243, 51247, 51201, 51240 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 Lyon 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.