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

Madison County, Iowa is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. ZIP-level distress ranges from 18/100 at the top down to 13/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 69 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading. The county spans 15 scored ZIP codes, averaging 15/100 composite distress.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.1% over the past year, a 15/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.1% YoY (15/100 confidence), selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 69/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

By composite, 50211 (18/100), 50061 (17/100), 50070 (16/100), 50072 (16/100), 50210 (16/100), 50229 (16/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 50261, 50033, 50155, 50218, 50222, 50240, 50273, 50149, 50257.

On the housing-and-income side, Madison County's tracked footprint run home values averaging roughly $274,671, below the US, residents with a median age around 44.9, 86% owner-occupancy, a 9.9% vacancy rate, a 7% poverty rate, a median household income near $100,030 (above the US norm). Read together, they signal who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Madison County, Iowa's 15/100 average over 15 ZIPs says the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Madison County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

No county is too small to score: Madison County, Iowa runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Madison County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Iowa.

The way to work Madison County, Iowa is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 18/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Madison County with undifferentiated outreach. Every Madison County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

Drilling in, Madison County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 50211 (18/100), 50061 (17/100), 50070 (16/100), 50072 (16/100), 50210 (16/100), 50229 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 50261, 50033, 50155, 50218, 50222, 50240, 50273, 50149 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.

The Madison 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.