ZIP 51579 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Harrison County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 51579 (Harrison County, Iowa) at a low 24/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100). Structural risk reads 57/100 against active distress of 6/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (66/100), institutional ownership (57/100), structural risk (57/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (21/100).
Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 3.8% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years (phase confidence 24/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened. 9.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The typical home is worth about $204,400 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100. At $70,833, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. There are about 965 housing units across 51579. About 23% have a four-year degree. About 2,205 people live here, median age 36. 77% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 13.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.
Net-net, 51579 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 51579 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 51579 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 24/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 51579 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
51579's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 51579 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 51579
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: 51579 by the numbers
A live read on 51579: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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