ZIP 50243 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Polk County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 50243 in Polk County, Iowa carries a composite property-distress score of 26/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Structurally it carries 58/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (70/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (58/100), institutional ownership (35/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (35/100) and mortgage stress (12/100).
Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 3.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 29/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
Population is roughly 348 with a median age of 37. Owners hold 90% of homes, renters 10%. The ZIP holds roughly 158 housing units. 11.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The typical home is worth about $184,700 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). Median household income is $67,500, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 15.4% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. Around 58% of renters are cost-burdened. About 24% have a four-year degree.
On the whole, 50243 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 50243 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
The 50243 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 26/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 50243 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Polk County, Iowa. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 50243 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
50243's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 50243 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 50243
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 50243 Stress Report snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 50243, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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