ZIP 52043 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Clayton County, Iowa · Affordable market
ZIP 52043's composite property-distress score is 14/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Clayton County, Iowa. The latent-versus-live split is 32/100 structural and 3/100 already moving. Its standout signals are structural risk (32/100), construction/permit lag (26/100), institutional ownership (14/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (10/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (61/100)).
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year, and 3% lower over three years (phase confidence 28/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
About 1,853 people live here, median age 50. A median home runs $165,000 here, or 2.2 times local income. There are about 1,064 housing units across 52043. On demographic stress specifically, 52043 scores 23/100. Median household income is $65,202, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 9.3%. Around 28% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 7.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Owners hold 78% of homes, renters 22%. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above.
Net-net, 52043 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Whether 52043 runs hot or quiet, its 14/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 52043 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Clayton County, Iowa or nationwide. Where the record is thin for 52043, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
The 14/100 figure for 52043 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. In workflow terms, 52043 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 52043’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
Snapshot: 52043 by the numbers
The live 52043 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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The complete 52043 distress and acquisition report
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