ZIP 51048 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Woodbury County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
Composite property distress in 51048 (Woodbury County, Iowa) lands at 27/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (66/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (47/100). mortgage stress (19/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 62/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 25/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 465 people live here, median age 33. Home values center near $103,100, an affordability ratio of 1.3× — accessible. Roughly 8.0% live below the poverty line. Around 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 17.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 6% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 77% owner-occupied to 23% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 51048 scores 19/100. The ZIP holds roughly 172 housing units. Median household income is $80,000, near the U.S. median near $78,000.
On the whole, 51048 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The 51048 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 27/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 51048 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Woodbury County, Iowa. Sparse data for 51048 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
51048's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 51048 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 51048
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
51048 at a glance
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