ZIP 50144 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 50144 (Decatur County, Iowa) at a minimal 4/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (8/100), mortgage stress (4/100), institutional ownership (3/100). mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 8/100 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.

The tenure split is 64% owner-occupied to 36% rented. Households earn a median $64,511 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $130,800 here, or 1.9 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 50144 scores 24/100. Vacancy runs 16.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 5.6% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. There are about 1,323 housing units across 50144. About 15% have a four-year degree. 2,715 residents call 50144 home, typically aged 38. Rent burden reaches 20% of tenant households.

Taken together, 50144 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.