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

Washington County, Iowa is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 15/100 at the top down to 5/100. There are 13 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 11/100). On bank and credit headwind, Washington County scores 46/100.

In its peak phase, Washington County home prices rose 2.3% across the last year (phase confidence 29/100). With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.3% YoY (29/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A moderate 46/100 lender headwind implies both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 52585 (15/100), 52247 (14/100), 52540 (13/100), 52327 (12/100), 52356 (11/100), 52201 (10/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 52353, 52359, 52654, 52248, 52621, 52641, 52738 among others.

By the numbers, the Washington County ZIPs on file run poverty running near 10.2%, typical home values near $178,908, 7.9% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 40.1, incomes around $71,097, an owner-occupied share of 79%. Income, equity and tenure like these set up where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

At 11/100 composite over 13 ZIPs, Washington County is a screen-by-ZIP market rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Washington County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

Read Washington County, Iowa as a heat map for effort — the county's minimal composite of 11/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Washington County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Washington County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 52585 (15/100), 52247 (14/100), 52540 (13/100), 52327 (12/100), 52356 (11/100), 52201 (10/100). DLRadar also scores 52353, 52359, 52654, 52248, 52621, 52641, 52738 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 Washington 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.