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

Union County, Iowa is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 64/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. 11 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 8/100 distress. Individual Union County ZIPs score between 4 and 14 on the 0–100 composite.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.5% over the past year, at 28/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Union County's topped-out +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 64/100 lender headwind signals what's coming: banks under pressure move REO faster.

By composite, 50149 (14/100), 50174 (9/100), 50801 (8/100), 50845 (8/100), 50254 (7/100), 50830 (7/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Coverage extends to 50831, 50842, 50851, 50861, 50074 among others.

By the numbers, the Union County ZIPs on file come in at a median household income near $61,214 (below the US norm), a 9.8% poverty rate, vacancy near 15.4%, residents with a median age around 45.1, home values averaging roughly $179,256, below the US, 85% owner-occupancy. Numbers like these signal which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

With a minimal 8/100 reading over 11 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Union County parcel's owner, APN and address, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

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

The practical read on Union County, Iowa is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. Nothing in the Union County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

The ZIP breakdown for Union County leads with 50149 (14/100), 50174 (9/100), 50801 (8/100), 50845 (8/100), 50254 (7/100), 50830 (7/100). DLRadar also scores 50831, 50842, 50851, 50861, 50074 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.

The Union 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.