ZIP 51543 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 51543 (Audubon County, Iowa) lands at 11/100 — minimal on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (27/100), structural risk (23/100), construction/permit lag (19/100). construction/permit lag (19/100) and mortgage stress (11/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 23/100 structural and 3/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

435 residents call 51543 home, typically aged 43. There are about 188 housing units across 51543. The typical home is worth about $163,000 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). About 10% have a four-year degree. 76% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 14.2% — elevated. On demographic stress specifically, 51543 scores 36/100. Median household income is $55,625, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 67% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 23.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.

Net-net, 51543 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 51543 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Whether 51543 runs hot or quiet, its 11/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 51543 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Audubon County, Iowa or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 51543 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 11/100 for 51543 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 51543 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.