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

For Worth County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. There are 10 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 14/100). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 9 to 23 out of 100. Lender pressure in Worth County registers 95/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind.

In its peak phase, Worth County home prices rose 2.7% across the last year (phase confidence 21/100). At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms leaving the wins in individual deals.

With Worth County flat at +2.7% YoY (21/100 confidence), the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. Its 95/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The sharpest Worth County readings come from 50472 (23/100), 50434 (20/100), 50464 (20/100), 50444 (16/100), 50450 (15/100), 50440 (9/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 50446, 50448, 50456, 50459 among others.

Profile-wise, the Worth County ZIPs on file report home values averaging roughly $153,389, below the US, an owner-occupied share of 81%, 8.2% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 47.5, 9.2% of households below the poverty line, a median household income near $78,551 (near the US norm). Numbers like these drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

With a minimal 14/100 reading over 10 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Worth County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

The point of scoring Worth County, Iowa is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. The Worth 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.

The ZIP breakdown for Worth County leads with 50472 (23/100), 50434 (20/100), 50464 (20/100), 50444 (16/100), 50450 (15/100), 50440 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 50446, 50448, 50456, 50459 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

The Worth 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.