ZIP 50588 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Buena Vista County, Iowa's ZIP 50588 registers 23/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 51/100 against active distress of 4/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (51/100), institutional ownership (35/100). institutional ownership (35/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.0% over the trailing year, and 14% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

13,346 residents call 50588 home, typically aged 32. The tenure split is 67% owner-occupied to 33% rented. A median home runs $184,900 here, or 2.7 times local income. Vacancy runs 6.9%. There are about 4,929 housing units across 50588. Households earn a median $65,475 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 23% have a four-year degree. Roughly 8.6% live below the poverty line. On demographic stress specifically, 50588 scores 26/100. Rent burden reaches 25% of tenant households.

Overall, 50588 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.