ZIP 50072 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Madison County, Iowa, ZIP 50072 scores 15 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (51/100), structural risk (33/100), institutional ownership (13/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (13/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) register low. The split runs 33/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, and 6% higher over three years (phase confidence 15/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

2,787 residents call 50072 home, typically aged 45. The vacancy rate is 5.5%. The poverty rate is 2.9% — low. The ZIP holds roughly 1,213 housing units. Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. Rent burden reaches 15% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $303,900 (2.7× income, relatively affordable). At $111,518, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Educational attainment sits at 35% bachelor's-or-above. On demographic stress specifically, 50072 scores 20/100.

Broadly, 50072 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. 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: 50072 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 15/100 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; 50072 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Each component behind 50072 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 15/100 roll-up. For an operator, 50072 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.