ZIP 50126 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Hardin County, Iowa · Affordable market
ZIP 50126's composite property-distress score is 18/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Hardin County, Iowa. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (52/100), structural risk (40/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 40/100 structural and 3/100 already moving.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The typical home is worth about $133,300 (1.9× income, relatively affordable). Median household income is $61,711, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 6,362 residents call 50126 home, typically aged 44. 66% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 3,073 housing units across 50126. Rent burden reaches 42% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 10.0%. Roughly 6.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. On demographic stress specifically, 50126 scores 26/100. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above.
Net-net, 50126 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 50126 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 18/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Hardin County, Iowa and the nation. 50126 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 18/100 for 50126 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 50126 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 50126
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
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