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

Every ZIP in Warren County, Iowa carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county's ZIP scores run from 7 up to 33/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 66/100 (elevated). The county spans 21 scored ZIP codes, averaging 18/100 composite distress.

In its peak phase, Warren County home prices rose 2.1% across the last year, a 15/100-confidence read. This late in the run, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.1% YoY (15/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Bank stress at 66/100 signals what's coming: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Top distress by ZIP runs 50265 (33/100), 50321 (33/100), 50320 (30/100), 50047 (22/100), 50001 (18/100), 50118 (18/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 50125, 50145, 50160, 50166, 50211, 50241, 50061, 50210, 50229, 50240 among others.

Profile-wise, the Warren County ZIPs on file come in at a 9.3% vacancy rate, 86% of homes owner-occupied, median home values around $265,524 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 41.5, 7.2% of households below the poverty line, a median household income near $88,534 (above the US norm). Read together, they shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Warren County, Iowa's 18/100 average over 21 ZIPs says Warren County rewards parcel-by-parcel work where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Warren County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

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

Treat Warren County, Iowa as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. Every Warren County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Warren County are 50265 (33/100), 50321 (33/100), 50320 (30/100), 50047 (22/100), 50001 (18/100), 50118 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 50125, 50145, 50160, 50166, 50211, 50241, 50061, 50210 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 Warren 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.