ZIP 51541 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Mills County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 51541 in Mills County, Iowa carries a composite property-distress score of 12/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (35/100), structural risk (28/100), institutional ownership (16/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100). Structurally it carries 28/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.
Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 3.6% over the trailing year, at 19/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
A median home runs $163,600 here, or 1.9 times local income. Vacancy runs 14.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 118 housing units across 51541. Roughly 10.3% live below the poverty line. Owners hold 85% of homes, renters 15%. Median household income is $84,167, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 11% of tenant households. About 21% have a four-year degree. About 402 people live here, median age 33. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 22/100.
On the whole, 51541 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 51541 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
The 51541 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 12/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 51541 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Mills County, Iowa. 51541 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
51541's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 51541 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 51541
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 51541 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 51541, the same set carried on every parcel.
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Every distressed parcel in 51541 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to funding and closing, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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