ZIP 50243 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 50243 (Polk County, Iowa) at a low 18/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 39/100 against active distress of 4/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (70/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (39/100), institutional ownership (31/100), mortgage stress (12/100). institutional ownership (31/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.7% over the trailing year, at 39/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

348 residents call 50243 home, typically aged 37. The tenure split is 90% owner-occupied to 10% rented. There are about 158 housing units across 50243. Roughly 11.5% live below the poverty line. A median home runs $184,700 here, or 2.6 times local income. Households earn a median $67,500 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 15.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 50243 scores 30/100. Rent burden reaches 58% of tenant households. About 24% have a four-year degree.

Taken together, 50243 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.