ZIP 52136 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Howard County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
ZIP 52136's composite property-distress score is 16/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Howard County, Iowa. On the structural side it scores 36/100, with 4/100 of stress already active. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (69/100), structural risk (36/100), institutional ownership (25/100). institutional ownership (25/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.
The peak-phase market in 52136 posted values that rose 2.5% over the year, and 29% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Households earn a median $66,932 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 8.5% live below the poverty line. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. Vacancy runs 12.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 2,604 housing units. Home values center near $161,100, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. Population is roughly 5,763 with a median age of 44.
Net-net, 52136 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 52136 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Whether 52136 runs hot or quiet, its 16/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 52136 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Howard County, Iowa or nationwide. 52136 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 16/100 for 52136 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 an operator, 52136 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 52136’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
52136 at a glance
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 52136, the same set carried on every parcel.
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