ZIP 51601 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 51601's composite property-distress score is 12/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Page County, Iowa. The split runs 28/100 structural to 1/100 active on the ground. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (69/100), structural risk (28/100), mortgage stress (3/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, and 26% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $59,647, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. There are about 2,828 housing units across 51601. 19.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 20% have a four-year degree. Around 31% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 12.1% — elevated. 61% of housing is owner-occupied. Population is roughly 5,562 with a median age of 44. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100. A median home runs $124,200 here, or 2.0 times local income.

On the whole, 51601 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 51601 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 51601 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 12/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 51601 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Page County, Iowa. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 51601 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Each component behind 51601 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 12/100 roll-up. For an operator, 51601 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.