ZIP 50853 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Cass County, Iowa's ZIP 50853 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The latent-versus-live split is 35/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (72/100), structural risk (35/100), mortgage stress (3/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.4% year on year (phase confidence 28/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $71,250, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $169,100 (3.0× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 13.7%. Around 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 30% of renters are cost-burdened. 82% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 6.5%. About 773 people live here, median age 43. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. The ZIP holds roughly 326 housing units.

Net-net, 50853 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.