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

Monroe County, Iowa is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Coverage runs to 7 ZIPs across Monroe County, a minimal 11/100 average. Lender pressure in Monroe County registers 39/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. ZIP-level distress ranges from 15/100 at the top down to 6/100.

Currently peak, Monroe County saw prices rise 2.5% year over year, at 28/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 39/100 means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Monroe County are 52571 (15/100), 52536 (13/100), 50150 (12/100), 52531 (12/100), 52553 (11/100), 52569 (11/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 50044.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Monroe County show 9.5% of households below the poverty line, 86% of homes owner-occupied, vacancy near 17.5%, residents with a median age around 46.9, median home values around $138,986 (below the national figure), household income averaging about $70,581, roughly at the national median. Read together, they frame the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

At 11/100 composite over 7 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Monroe County parcel: owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Monroe County, Iowa's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. The Monroe County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

Drilling in, Monroe County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 52571 (15/100), 52536 (13/100), 50150 (12/100), 52531 (12/100), 52553 (11/100), 52569 (11/100). DLRadar also scores 50044 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 Monroe 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.