ZIP 50023 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Polk County, Iowa · Distress market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 50023 (Polk County, Iowa) returns a moderate composite of 34/100. Structural exposure scores 75 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale. Leading the profile are structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (67/100), institutional ownership (53/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (17/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (62/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, and 14% higher over three years (phase confidence 15/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 45,286 people live here, median age 33. Vacancy runs 3.4%. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 23% of tenant households. A median home runs $345,100 here, or 2.9 times local income. The poverty rate is 4.4% — low. The ZIP holds roughly 18,560 housing units. About 55% have a four-year degree. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 21/100. At $113,914, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.
Overall, 50023 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
No ZIP is too small to score: 50023 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 34/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 50023 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
50023's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 50023 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 50023’s distress
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
50023 at a glance
The live 50023 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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