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ZIP 50311 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Polk County, Iowa · High Poverty market

Polk County, Iowa's ZIP 50311 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structurally it carries 75/100, against 5/100 of stress already in motion. Its standout signals are structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (56/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (17/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 15/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

About 15,889 people live here, median age 31. 20.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The typical home is worth about $226,500 (3.6× income, relatively affordable). The vacancy rate is 6.7%. The tenure split is 48% owner-occupied to 52% rented. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. About 41% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 6,867 housing units. At $63,233, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100.

Taken together, 50311 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 50311 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 50311 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 33/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 50311 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

50311's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 50311 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.

33/100
Composite stress
75/100
Structural risk
5/100
Distress activity

ZIP 50311 distress signals, scored

Foreclosure activity0
Mortgage stress17
Climate / FEMA risk93
Another 9 scored dimensions sit behind 50311

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.

50311 at a glance

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