ZIP 50139 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 50139's composite property-distress score is 14/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Warren County, Iowa. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (48/100), structural risk (30/100), institutional ownership (16/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (2/100) register low. Structural risk reads 30/100 against active distress of 1/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.3% year on year, and 38% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Population is roughly 1,058 with a median age of 50. Roughly 8.9% live below the poverty line. Home values center near $151,600, an affordability ratio of 1.9× — accessible. Owners hold 93% of homes, renters 7%. Educational attainment sits at 23% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $70,673 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 17.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 532 housing units. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 50139 scores 25/100.

On the whole, 50139 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 50139 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Big metro or rural, 50139 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 14/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Warren County, Iowa and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 50139, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 50139'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, 50139 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.