Van Buren County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

For Van Buren County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. On bank and credit headwind, Van Buren County scores 0/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 5 to 15 out of 100. 13 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 10/100 distress.

In its peak phase, Van Buren County home prices rose 2.5% across the last year, a 28/100-confidence read. This late in the run, distress turns selective with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Van Buren County's topped-out +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence) means opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A low 0/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Van Buren County are 52535 (15/100), 52567 (14/100), 52651 (14/100), 52554 (13/100), 52542 (10/100), 52565 (10/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 52620, 52551, 52588, 52626, 52630, 52570, 52573.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Van Buren County report poverty running near 16.2%, a 20% vacancy rate, a median household income near $62,900 (below the US norm), home values averaging roughly $128,550, below the US, a median age of 46.2, 84% owner-occupancy. Numbers like these frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

At 10/100 composite over 13 ZIPs, Van Buren County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Van Buren County property carries owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Van Buren 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. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Van Buren County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Van Buren County are 52535 (15/100), 52567 (14/100), 52651 (14/100), 52554 (13/100), 52542 (10/100), 52565 (10/100). DLRadar also scores 52620, 52551, 52588, 52626, 52630, 52570, 52573 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.

Under Van Buren County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.