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

Across Winneshiek County, Iowa, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 12 to 17 out of 100. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 15/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Winneshiek County scores 52/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.5% over twelve months, a 28/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A moderate 52/100 lender headwind means both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 52165 (17/100), 52168 (17/100), 52101 (16/100), 52132 (16/100), 52133 (16/100), 52144 (16/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Further scored ZIPs: 52161, 52136, 52162, 52171, 52140, 52172.

Underneath the scores, the Winneshiek County ZIPs on file report poverty running near 7.9%, 78% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $71,414 (near the US norm), residents with a median age around 41.9, vacancy near 10.2%, typical home values near $204,183. Income, equity and tenure like these shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Net of it all, 15/100 over 12 ZIPs means Winneshiek County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Winneshiek County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

Whether Winneshiek County, Iowa carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Winneshiek County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Approach Winneshiek County by rank rather than by average — the 15/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Provenance for Winneshiek County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Winneshiek County are 52165 (17/100), 52168 (17/100), 52101 (16/100), 52132 (16/100), 52133 (16/100), 52144 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 52161, 52136, 52162, 52171, 52140, 52172 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 Winneshiek 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.