ZIP 50597 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Palo Alto County, Iowa's ZIP 50597 registers 23/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (90/100), structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (42/100). mortgage stress (17/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 54 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.4% over the trailing year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The tenure split is 80% owner-occupied to 20% rented. A median home runs $179,700 here, or 2.1 times local income. Roughly 4.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 25% have a four-year degree. There are about 548 housing units across 50597. Rent burden reaches 13% of tenant households. 1,363 residents call 50597 home, typically aged 37. Households earn a median $87,042 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 12.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 50597 scores 21/100.

Taken together, 50597 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.