ZIP 50218 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Madison County, Iowa · Affordable market
Madison County, Iowa's ZIP 50218 registers 15/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (93/100), structural risk (35/100), institutional ownership (3/100). institutional ownership (3/100) and mortgage stress (2/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 35/100, with 1/100 of stress already active.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.1% year on year, at 15/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
293 residents call 50218 home, typically aged 41. A median home runs $111,100 here, or 1.5 times local income. 95% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 4.6%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 16/100. At $71,786, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Roughly 4.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The ZIP holds roughly 143 housing units. About 9% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households.
On balance 50218 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 50218 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Big metro or rural, 50218 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 15/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Madison County, Iowa and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 50218, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 15/100 figure for 50218 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. The point of the 50218 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 50218’s distress
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 50218 Stress Report snapshot
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