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

Every ZIP in Pottawattamie County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. There are 24 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 22/100). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 12 to 26 out of 100. On bank and credit headwind, Pottawattamie County scores 62/100, a stressed reading.

In its neutral phase, Pottawattamie County home prices rose 3.8% across the last year, at 24/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

With Pottawattamie County flat at +3.8% YoY (24/100 confidence), selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. An elevated 62/100 reading signals what's coming: banks under pressure move REO faster.

The sharpest Pottawattamie County readings come from 51501 (26/100), 51510 (26/100), 51525 (26/100), 51526 (26/100), 51536 (26/100), 51542 (26/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Further scored ZIPs: 51548, 51549, 51553, 51560, 51575, 51576, 51559, 51503, 51521, 51555.

Underneath the scores, the Pottawattamie County ZIPs on file show 8.3% of units sitting vacant, a median household income near $71,501 (near the US norm), 81% owner-occupancy, a median age of 42.5, home values averaging roughly $203,900, below the US, a 7.5% poverty rate. Read together, they signal both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

With a low 22/100 reading over 24 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Pottawattamie County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

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

Treat Pottawattamie County, Iowa as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. These Pottawattamie County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

Drilling in, Pottawattamie County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 51501 (26/100), 51510 (26/100), 51525 (26/100), 51526 (26/100), 51536 (26/100), 51542 (26/100). DLRadar also scores 51548, 51549, 51553, 51560, 51575, 51576, 51559, 51503 and more 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 Pottawattamie 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.