ZIP 50073 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Polk County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
ZIP 50073's composite property-distress score is 33/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Polk County, Iowa. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (56/100). mortgage stress (17/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 75/100, with 5/100 of stress already active. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100)).
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.1% year on year, and 4% higher over three years, at 15/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Around 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 1,018 people live here, median age 50. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 21/100. A median home runs $274,700 here, or 2.9 times local income. Median household income is $94,712, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The tenure split is 90% owner-occupied to 10% rented. The poverty rate is 9.0%. The vacancy rate is 15.5% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 9% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 614 housing units.
On the whole, 50073 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.
No ZIP is too small to score: 50073 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 33/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 50073 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Behind 50073's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 50073 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 50073’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
The 50073 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 50073, the same set carried on every parcel.
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Unlock parcel-level detail for ZIP 50073
Every distressed parcel in 50073 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to funding and closing, refreshed continuously nationwide.
Rules-based scoring — each signal ties to a public dataset · methodology