ZIP 52049 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Clayton County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 52049 in Clayton County, Iowa comes in at 14, a minimal composite-distress reading. Structural exposure scores 32 and live distress 3 on the 0–100 scale. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (61/100)). Leading the profile 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).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, and 11% lower over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Owners hold 86% of homes, renters 14%. There are about 754 housing units across 52049. 7.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. About 1,336 people live here, median age 44. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. The typical home is worth about $170,800 (2.4× income, relatively affordable). Median household income is $68,750, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 16.4% — elevated. Around 59% of renters are cost-burdened.
Net-net, 52049 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.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 52049's 14/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Clayton County, Iowa or any ZIP coast to coast. 52049 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 14/100 for 52049 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 52049 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 52049’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
ZIP 52049 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 52049, the same set carried on every parcel.
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