ZIP 50249 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 50249's composite property-distress score is 21/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Hamilton County, Iowa. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (34/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (34/100) and mortgage stress (14/100). The split runs 46/100 structural to 4/100 active on the ground.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.7% year on year, and 22% higher over three years, at 25/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The vacancy rate is 10.3%. 85% of housing is owner-occupied. 6.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 668 housing units across 50249. The typical home is worth about $119,000 (2.0× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $54,167 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 1,256 residents call 50249 home, typically aged 55. On demographic stress specifically, 50249 scores 25/100. Educational attainment sits at 17% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households.

Net-net, 50249 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 50249's 21/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Hamilton County, Iowa or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 50249, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 21/100 figure for 50249 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. In workflow terms, 50249 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.