ZIP 50056 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Story County, Iowa · Affordable market
DLRadar grades ZIP 50056 (Story County, Iowa) at a low 24/100 for overall property distress. The split runs 54/100 structural to 5/100 active on the ground. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (44/100), construction/permit lag (28/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (28/100) and mortgage stress (16/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (73/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (72/100).
Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.6% over the trailing year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 42/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
86% of housing is owner-occupied. At $79,667, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Population is roughly 1,122 with a median age of 41. The ZIP holds roughly 514 housing units. A median home runs $184,500 here, or 2.3 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 21/100. The poverty rate is 3.9% — low. Around 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 4.6%. Around 26% of renters are cost-burdened.
Broadly, 50056 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. 50056 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Whether 50056 runs hot or quiet, its 24/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 50056 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Story County, Iowa or nationwide. Where the record is thin for 50056, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
Each component behind 50056 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 24/100 roll-up. In workflow terms, 50056 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Signal-by-signal read on 50056
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
50056 at a glance
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 50056, the same set carried on every parcel.
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Get the full acquisition report for 50056
The full 50056 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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