ZIP 50108 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 50108 (Decatur County, Iowa) at a minimal 8/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (37/100), structural risk (17/100), mortgage stress (4/100). mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 17/100 against active distress of 1/100.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.4% over the trailing year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

432 residents call 50108 home, typically aged 49. Vacancy runs 21.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The tenure split is 70% owner-occupied to 30% rented. There are about 247 housing units across 50108. Households earn a median $33,594 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 24.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. A median home runs $46,300 here, or 1.4 times local income. About 14% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 50108 scores 28/100.

Taken together, 50108 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.