ZIP 50311 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Polk County, Iowa · High Poverty market
Polk County, Iowa's ZIP 50311 registers 34/100 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 (67/100), institutional ownership (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (17/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100).
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 34/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 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.
ZIP 50311 distress signals, scored
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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