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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Taylor County, Iowa using verifiable public-record signals alone. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 59/100. Coverage runs to 11 ZIPs across Taylor County, a minimal 13/100 average. ZIP-level distress ranges from 15/100 at the top down to 7/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.5% over twelve months (phase confidence 28/100). On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +2.5% YoY and 28/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A moderate 59/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 50833 (15/100), ZIP 50848 (15/100), ZIP 50862 (15/100), ZIP 51646 (15/100), ZIP 50836 (14/100), ZIP 50840 (14/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Other tracked Taylor County ZIPs include 50864, 51632, 50841, 50857, 50851.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Taylor County come in at vacancy near 17.1%, an owner-occupied share of 78%, a 9.2% poverty rate, a median age of 47.4, household income averaging about $61,971, below the national median, home values averaging roughly $135,218, below the US. Numbers like these signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

At 13/100 composite over 11 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Taylor County property carries owner, address and APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

Used properly, Taylor County, Iowa's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Taylor County as a whole. The Taylor County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Taylor County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 50833 (15/100), 50848 (15/100), 50862 (15/100), 51646 (15/100), 50836 (14/100), 50840 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 50864, 51632, 50841, 50857, 50851 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 Taylor 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.