ZIP 51237 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lyon County, Iowa · Affordable market
DLRadar grades ZIP 51237 (Lyon County, Iowa) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. On the structural side it scores 53/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (76/100), structural risk (53/100), institutional ownership (43/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, and 66% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The vacancy rate is 5.3%. Households earn a median $62,727 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 85% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 39% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 1,577 with a median age of 49. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100. A median home runs $159,500 here, or 2.1 times local income. There are about 722 housing units across 51237. 6.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 21% bachelor's-or-above.
On balance 51237 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 51237 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 51237's 23/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lyon County, Iowa or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 51237, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 23/100 figure for 51237 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 51237 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 51237
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.
ZIP 51237 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 51237, the same set carried on every parcel.
Other Lyon County ZIP codes
Nearest ZIP codes to 51237
By straight-line distance between ZIP centers — the surrounding market, whichever county or state line it crosses.
Keep exploring Iowa distress
Further distress data across Lyon County, Iowa at ZIP, county and state level.
Unlock parcel-level detail for ZIP 51237
The full 51237 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
Each signal above is traceable to an open dataset · methodology