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

Mahaska County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 56 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. There are 20 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 11/100). Individual Mahaska County ZIPs score between 6 and 20 on the 0–100 composite.

Currently peak, Mahaska County saw prices rise 2.7% year over year, at 21/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

With Mahaska County flat at +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 56/100 means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 50251 (20/100), ZIP 50153 (19/100), ZIP 50171 (18/100), ZIP 52501 (14/100), ZIP 50104 (13/100), ZIP 52553 (11/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 52550, 50027, 50207, 50268, 52534, 52543, 52561, 52577, 52586, 52595.

Demographically, Mahaska County's scored ZIPs come in at 9.3% of households below the poverty line, residents with a median age around 41.6, a median household income near $67,034 (below the US norm), vacancy near 8.3%, 76% of homes owner-occupied, home values averaging roughly $154,179, below the US. Numbers like these shape both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Mahaska County, Iowa's 11/100 average over 20 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Mahaska County parcel: owner, APN and address, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

Mahaska County, Iowa is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Mahaska County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Mahaska County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Mahaska County are 50251 (20/100), 50153 (19/100), 50171 (18/100), 52501 (14/100), 50104 (13/100), 52553 (11/100). DLRadar also scores 52550, 50027, 50207, 50268, 52534, 52543, 52561, 52577 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Mahaska 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.