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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Montgomery County, Iowa using verifiable public-record signals alone. Lender pressure in Montgomery County registers 26/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind. The county's ZIP scores run from 8 up to 18/100. Coverage runs to 10 ZIPs across Montgomery County, a minimal 14/100 average.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.5% over the past year, a 28/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

With Montgomery County flat at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A contained 26/100 bank headwind points the search to owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

By composite, 51533 (18/100), 51532 (17/100), 50847 (16/100), 51573 (16/100), 51566 (15/100), 50864 (14/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 51638, 51645, 51541, 50857.

On the housing-and-income side, the Montgomery County ZIPs on file show household income averaging about $63,047, below the national median, an owner-occupied share of 81%, a 9.7% poverty rate, 6.8% of units sitting vacant, typical home values near $122,378, residents with a median age around 48. These fundamentals shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Montgomery County, Iowa's 14/100 average over 10 ZIPs says Montgomery County is a screen-by-ZIP market rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Montgomery County property carries owner, APN and address, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

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

In Montgomery County, Iowa, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. Nothing in the Montgomery County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

The ZIP breakdown for Montgomery County leads with 51533 (18/100), 51532 (17/100), 50847 (16/100), 51573 (16/100), 51566 (15/100), 50864 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 51638, 51645, 51541, 50857 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Montgomery 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.