ZIP 52072 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 52072 (Clayton County, Iowa) returns a low composite of 15/100. The latent-versus-live split is 34/100 structural and 3/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (34/100), institutional ownership (19/100), construction/permit lag (17/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (17/100) and mortgage stress (10/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The typical home is worth about $121,000 (1.7× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 6.5%. About 694 people live here, median age 61. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. Around 26% of renters are cost-burdened. Median household income is $66,667, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Owners hold 51% of homes, renters 50%. Around 7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 164 housing units. 37.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Taken together, 52072 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 52072 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 52072 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 15/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 52072 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Clayton County, Iowa. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 52072 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

52072'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. For a buyer, 52072 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.