ZIP 50026 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 50026 (Guthrie County, Iowa) at a minimal 6/100 for overall property distress. Latent structural risk is 12/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (12/100), mortgage stress (4/100), institutional ownership (3/100). mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.2% over the trailing year (phase confidence 21/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100. Households earn a median $77,875 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $101,300 here, or 1.3 times local income. Rent burden reaches 24% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 292 housing units. 25.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 17.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. 518 residents call 50026 home, typically aged 49.

On the whole, 50026 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Whether 50026 runs hot or quiet, its 6/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 50026 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Guthrie County, Iowa or nationwide. Where the public record is thin for 50026, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

50026's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 50026 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.