ZIP 51534 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Mills County, Iowa · Distress market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 51534 in Mills County, Iowa comes in at 15, a low composite-distress reading. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (34/100), mortgage stress (3/100). mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 34/100 against active distress of 1/100.
Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 3.8% over the trailing year, and 7% higher over three years, at 24/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
There are about 3,662 housing units across 51534. Median household income is $89,023, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Home values center near $246,600, an affordability ratio of 2.7× — accessible. Rent burden reaches 25% of tenant households. Population is roughly 9,238 with a median age of 42. Around 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 8.2%. 7.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 83% of housing is owner-occupied. On demographic stress specifically, 51534 scores 23/100.
Overall 51534 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. While 51534 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Big metro or rural, 51534 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 15/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Mills County, Iowa and the nation. 51534 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 15/100 for 51534 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 51534 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 51534
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 51534 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 51534, the same set carried on every parcel.
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