ZIP 50843 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 50843 (Cass County, Iowa) lands at 16/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (74/100), structural risk (36/100), institutional ownership (5/100). institutional ownership (5/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 36 and live distress 1 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.

There are about 246 housing units across 50843. A median home runs $105,000 here, or 1.7 times local income. The tenure split is 76% owner-occupied to 24% rented. Vacancy runs 8.8%. Roughly 23.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Households earn a median $48,438 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 9% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. 462 residents call 50843 home, typically aged 45. On demographic stress specifically, 50843 scores 28/100.

Taken together, 50843 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.