Iron County, WI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Iron County, Wisconsin sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. DLRadar scores 12 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 11/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 43/100 (moderate). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 8 to 17 out of 100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 4.6% over the past year (phase confidence 40/100). At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Iron County's topped-out +4.6% YoY (40/100 confidence) means opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 43/100 means both signal sets in play here.

The sharpest Iron County readings come from 54545 (17/100), 54557 (17/100), 54538 (16/100), 54514 (14/100), 54552 (11/100), 54559 (9/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 54525, 54534, 54536, 54547, 54550, 54565 among others.

By the numbers, the Iron County ZIPs on file report 47.3% of units sitting vacant, 86% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $61,769 (below the US norm), residents with a median age around 53.6, median home values around $226,383 (below the national figure), 12.1% of households below the poverty line. Taken together, they drive who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

At 11/100 composite over 12 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Iron County parcel's owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Because Iron County, Wisconsin is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Iron County against neighboring markets or the rest of Wisconsin on equal footing.

Read Iron County, Wisconsin 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. Every Iron County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

The ZIP breakdown for Iron County leads with 54545 (17/100), 54557 (17/100), 54538 (16/100), 54514 (14/100), 54552 (11/100), 54559 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 54525, 54534, 54536, 54547, 54550, 54565 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.

DLRadar's composite for Iron 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.