ZIP 51553 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 51553 (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), climate & FEMA risk (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 82/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (56/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (21/100).

The peak-phase market in 51553 posted values that rose 3.6% over the year, and 40% higher over three years (phase confidence 24/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The typical home is worth about $225,900 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 5.3% — low. At $88,750, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 5% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 1,007 with a median age of 36. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 19/100. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 391 housing units. 89% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 6.7%.

On balance 51553 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.