ZIP 50234 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 50234 (Marshall County, Iowa) at a low 21/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 46 and live distress 4 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (55/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (31/100). institutional ownership (31/100) and mortgage stress (13/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (61/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.8% over the trailing year, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

463 residents call 50234 home, typically aged 52. Vacancy runs 16.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 50234 scores 19/100. Rent burden reaches 10% of tenant households. There are about 309 housing units across 50234. About 26% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $195,800 here, or 1.9 times local income. Households earn a median $85,000 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 91% owner-occupied to 9% rented. Roughly 6.8% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.

Taken together, 50234 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.