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

Marshall County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 45/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 13 up to 27/100. The county spans 21 scored ZIP codes, averaging 22/100 composite distress.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.7% over twelve months, at 21/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 45/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 50632 (27/100), 50635 (27/100), 50055 (25/100), 50005 (23/100), 50051 (23/100), 50078 (23/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Other tracked Marshall County ZIPs include 50120, 50142, 50148, 50158, 50162, 50239, 50247, 50106, 50234, 50028.

Underneath the scores, the Marshall County ZIPs on file come in at 6.7% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 46.4, a median household income near $74,832 (near the US norm), a 10.5% vacancy rate, an owner-occupied share of 85%, home values averaging roughly $167,590, below the US. Numbers like these shape both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

At 22/100 composite over 21 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Marshall County parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

Read Marshall County, Iowa as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 22/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. Every Marshall County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

Drilling in, Marshall County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 50632 (27/100), 50635 (27/100), 50055 (25/100), 50005 (23/100), 50051 (23/100), 50078 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 50120, 50142, 50148, 50158, 50162, 50239, 50247, 50106 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 Marshall 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.