ZIP 51351 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Dickinson County, Iowa's ZIP 51351 registers 27/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (43/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100). Structural exposure scores 63 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale.

The peak-phase market in 51351 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 21/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

On demographic stress specifically, 51351 scores 31/100. Vacancy runs 26.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 44% of tenant households. About 31% have a four-year degree. At $67,628, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 75% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 4.4% — low. About 4,990 people live here, median age 47. A median home runs $273,100 here, or 3.8 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 3,203 housing units.

On the whole, 51351 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 51351 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 27/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 51351 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Dickinson County, Iowa. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 51351, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

51351's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 51351 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.