ZIP 50578 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 50578 (Emmet County, Iowa) at a low 19/100 for overall property distress. Its standout signals are institutional ownership (46/100), structural risk (42/100), mortgage stress (19/100). mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (12/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100)). On the structural side it scores 42/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

There are about 351 housing units across 50578. 18.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 23.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 16% of renters are cost-burdened. About 21% have a four-year degree. Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 23/100. 659 residents call 50578 home, typically aged 35. At $68,938, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. A median home runs $106,500 here, or 1.4 times local income.

Taken together, 50578 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 50578 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 50578's 19/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Emmet County, Iowa or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 50578, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

50578'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 a buyer, 50578 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.