ZIP 51558 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 51558 (Monona County, Iowa) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 62 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (91/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (61/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.2% year on year, at 27/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 680 people live here, median age 39. Vacancy runs 18.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 15.4% live below the poverty line. About 19% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $100,000 here, or 0.9 times local income. Households earn a median $78,393 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 51558 scores 27/100. There are about 278 housing units across 51558. Rent burden reaches 56% of tenant households.

Net-net, 51558 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.