ZIP 52052 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 52052 (Clayton County, Iowa) at a minimal 14/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 32 and live distress 3 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (32/100), construction/permit lag (19/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.7% year on year, and 34% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 26.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 1,773 housing units across 52052. About 2,807 people live here, median age 57. Educational attainment sits at 13% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%. The poverty rate is 17.1% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $197,400 (3.4× income, relatively affordable). DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. Around 45% of renters are cost-burdened. Households earn a median $55,871 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 52052 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 52052 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

Big metro or rural, 52052 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 14/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Clayton County, Iowa and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 52052 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

52052's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 52052 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.