ZIP 51573 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Montgomery County, Iowa's ZIP 51573 registers 23/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (52/100), institutional ownership (44/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (17/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 52/100, with 5/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.4% year on year (phase confidence 28/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The vacancy rate is 5.5%. About 1,069 people live here, median age 50. Households earn a median $86,111 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 13% of renters are cost-burdened. About 27% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented. Roughly 4.7% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. On demographic stress specifically, 51573 scores 17/100. A median home runs $133,800 here, or 1.3 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 444 housing units.

Overall 51573 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.