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

Scott County, Iowa sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county spans 22 scored ZIP codes, averaging 30/100 composite distress. Individual Scott County ZIPs score between 22 and 31 on the 0–100 composite. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 41/100 (moderate).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.8% over twelve months, at 24/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, broad sweeps stop paying — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Scott County flat at +3.8% YoY (24/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A moderate 41/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 52722 (31/100), ZIP 52728 (31/100), ZIP 52745 (31/100), ZIP 52746 (31/100), ZIP 52748 (31/100), ZIP 52753 (31/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 52756, 52758, 52767, 52768, 52773, 52801, 52802, 52803, 52804, 52806 and more.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Scott County show a median age of 42.1, household income averaging about $81,033, roughly at the national median, 75% of homes owner-occupied, poverty running near 11.3%, median home values around $250,510 (below the national figure), vacancy near 8.5%. Numbers like these signal where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

With a moderate 30/100 reading over 22 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Scott County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

No county is too small to score: Scott County, Iowa runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Scott County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Iowa.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Scott County, Iowa's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. What supports the Scott County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Scott County are 52722 (31/100), 52728 (31/100), 52745 (31/100), 52746 (31/100), 52748 (31/100), 52753 (31/100). DLRadar also scores 52756, 52758, 52767, 52768, 52773, 52801, 52802, 52803 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.

The Scott 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.