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

Every ZIP in Pocahontas County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county's ZIP scores run from 10 up to 25/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 17/100 (contained). DLRadar scores 16 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 19/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.5% over twelve months (phase confidence 28/100). At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. Lender stress at 17/100 (contained) puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

By composite, 50562 (25/100), 50597 (24/100), 50510 (22/100), 50554 (21/100), 50520 (20/100), 50581 (20/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 50546, 50571, 50573, 50574, 50575, 50593, 50540, 50541, 50563, 50524.

By the numbers, Pocahontas County's scored ZIPs show median home values around $109,664 (below the national figure), 82% of homes owner-occupied, a median household income near $70,590 (near the US norm), residents with a median age around 47.5, poverty running near 9.3%, 16.5% of units sitting vacant. Numbers like these signal who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 19/100 over 16 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Pocahontas County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

The point of scoring Pocahontas County, Iowa is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. These Pocahontas County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Pocahontas County are 50562 (25/100), 50597 (24/100), 50510 (22/100), 50554 (21/100), 50520 (20/100), 50581 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 50546, 50571, 50573, 50574, 50575, 50593, 50540, 50541 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Pocahontas 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.