ZIP 52031 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Jackson County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 52031 in Jackson County, Iowa carries a composite property-distress score of 16/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Structural risk reads 35/100 against active distress of 6/100. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (44/100), structural risk (35/100), construction/permit lag (27/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (27/100) and mortgage stress (20/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.6% year on year, and 11% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Median household income is $84,243, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The poverty rate is 4.8% — low. On demographic stress specifically, 52031 scores 23/100. Home values center near $244,600, an affordability ratio of 2.8× — accessible. Around 16% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 2,510 housing units across 52031. About 26% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 14.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 5,490 residents call 52031 home, typically aged 43. Owners hold 86% of homes, renters 14%.
Net-net, 52031 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.
No ZIP is too small to score: 52031 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 16/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 52031 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 16/100 figure for 52031 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. The point of the 52031 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 52031’s distress
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
ZIP 52031 Stress Report snapshot
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