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

Every ZIP in Plymouth County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 37 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. Coverage runs to 15 ZIPs across Plymouth County, a low 27/100 average. ZIP-level distress ranges from 30/100 at the top down to 19/100.

In its peak phase, Plymouth County home prices rose 2.7% across the last year (phase confidence 21/100). On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 37/100 points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading Plymouth County on distress: 51108 (30/100), 51008 (29/100), 51024 (29/100), 51028 (29/100), 51031 (29/100), 51038 (29/100). Coverage extends to 51045, 51062, 51109, 51048, 51050, 51001, 51027, 51022, 51035 among others.

Demographically, the Plymouth County ZIPs on file run household income averaging about $80,209, roughly at the national median, median home values around $196,687 (below the national figure), 7.1% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 43.6, poverty running near 5.6%, 82% owner-occupancy. Numbers like these frame the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 27/100 over 15 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Plymouth County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

The distress read for Plymouth County, Iowa is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Plymouth County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

For anyone buying in Plymouth County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 30/100. What supports the Plymouth County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Plymouth County leads with 51108 (30/100), 51008 (29/100), 51024 (29/100), 51028 (29/100), 51031 (29/100), 51038 (29/100). DLRadar also scores 51045, 51062, 51109, 51048, 51050, 51001, 51027, 51022 and more 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 Plymouth 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.