ZIP 51449 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Calhoun County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 51449 (Calhoun County, Iowa) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. On the structural side it scores 43/100, with 4/100 of stress already active. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (82/100), structural risk (43/100), institutional ownership (23/100). institutional ownership (23/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Median household income is $66,750, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 11.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 22% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above. The vacancy rate is 13.1% — elevated. 1,951 residents call 51449 home, typically aged 48. There are about 898 housing units across 51449. Home values center near $115,800, an affordability ratio of 1.8× — accessible. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 23/100. 80% of housing is owner-occupied.
Net-net, 51449 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 51449 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
The 51449 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 20/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 51449 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Calhoun County, Iowa. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 51449 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Each component behind 51449 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 20/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 51449 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.
What is driving ZIP 51449’s distress
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
The 51449 distress snapshot
A live read on 51449: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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