ZIP 51447 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Shelby County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
Composite property distress in 51447 (Shelby County, Iowa) lands at 12/100 — minimal on DLRadar's distress scoring. Structural exposure scores 26 and live distress 4 on the 0–100 scale. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (26/100), institutional ownership (25/100), construction/permit lag (25/100). construction/permit lag (25/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The typical home is worth about $141,700 (2.1× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 3.8% — low. At $114,643, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 25% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 20/100. The vacancy rate is 35.4% — elevated. About 132 people live here, median age 60. The ZIP holds roughly 82 housing units. Owners hold 94% of homes, renters 6%.
Taken together, 51447 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 51447 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
No ZIP is too small to score: 51447 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 12/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 51447 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
Behind 51447's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 51447 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.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 51447
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 51447 distress snapshot
51447 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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