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

For Wapello County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 12/100 composite distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 14/100 at the top down to 7/100. On bank and credit headwind, Wapello County scores 40/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.7% over the past year (phase confidence 21/100). On a market plateau, distress turns selective with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +2.7% YoY and 21/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 40/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Wapello County are 52501 (14/100), 52530 (14/100), 52533 (14/100), 52548 (14/100), 52566 (14/100), 52536 (13/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 52554, 52531, 52553, 52563, 52537, 52552 among others.

Underneath the scores, Wapello County's tracked footprint run residents with a median age around 43.4, 81% owner-occupancy, home values averaging roughly $137,083, below the US, household income averaging about $65,383, below the national median, a 9.1% vacancy rate, a 9.1% poverty rate. Numbers like these set up who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

With a minimal 12/100 reading over 12 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Wapello County property carries owner, address and APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Wapello 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. Nothing in the Wapello 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.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Wapello County are 52501 (14/100), 52530 (14/100), 52533 (14/100), 52548 (14/100), 52566 (14/100), 52536 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 52554, 52531, 52553, 52563, 52537, 52552 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.

DLRadar's composite for Wapello 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.