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

Muscatine County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 52 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. The county spans 14 scored ZIP codes, averaging 21/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 12 up to 31/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.7% over twelve months, at 21/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

At +2.7% YoY and 21/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 52/100 implies both signal sets in play here.

The sharpest Muscatine County readings come from 52773 (31/100), 52726 (28/100), 52769 (28/100), 52747 (22/100), 52749 (21/100), 52759 (21/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Also scored across the county: 52766, 52720, 52760, 52761, 52776, 52778, 52754, 52739.

By the numbers, the Muscatine County ZIPs on file run a median household income near $74,647 (near the US norm), vacancy near 6.3%, residents with a median age around 41.2, typical home values near $207,957, 6.5% of households below the poverty line, 80% owner-occupancy. Income, equity and tenure like these frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Net of it all, 21/100 over 14 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Muscatine County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

Approach Muscatine County by rank rather than by average — the 21/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Nothing in the Muscatine 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 Muscatine County leads with 52773 (31/100), 52726 (28/100), 52769 (28/100), 52747 (22/100), 52749 (21/100), 52759 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 52766, 52720, 52760, 52761, 52776, 52778, 52754, 52739 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.

The Muscatine 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.