ZIP 51048 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In Woodbury County, Iowa, ZIP 51048 scores 22 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100). Its standout signals are institutional ownership (51/100), structural risk (49/100), mortgage stress (19/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (4/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 49 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.1% year on year, at 43/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 465 people live here, median age 33. A median home runs $103,100 here, or 1.3 times local income. Roughly 8.0% live below the poverty line. About 24% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 17.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 6% of tenant households. The tenure split is 77% owner-occupied to 23% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 51048 scores 19/100. There are about 172 housing units across 51048. Households earn a median $80,000 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 51048 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.