ZIP 50237 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Polk County, Iowa · Distress market
ZIP code 50237 in Polk County, Iowa carries a composite property-distress score of 30/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (67/100), structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (44/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (16/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100), climate & FEMA risk (82/100). The split runs 67/100 structural to 5/100 active on the ground.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, and 19% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Owners hold 96% of homes, renters 4%. Rent burden reaches 14% of tenant households. 0.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 1,430 housing units. Vacancy runs 0.2%. On demographic stress specifically, 50237 scores 21/100. Households earn a median $92,667 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 3,275 with a median age of 43. Educational attainment sits at 32% bachelor's-or-above. A median home runs $346,900 here, or 3.5 times local income.
On balance 50237 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 50237 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 50237's 30/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Polk County, Iowa or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 50237, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
50237's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 50237 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 50237
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
ZIP 50237 Stress Report snapshot
A live read on 50237: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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The complete 50237 distress and acquisition report
The full 50237 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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