ZIP 52142 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 52142's composite property-distress score is 13/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Fayette County, Iowa. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (50/100), structural risk (29/100), institutional ownership (5/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (5/100) and mortgage stress (4/100). Latent structural risk is 29/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

A median home runs $162,500 here, or 3.8 times local income. Median household income is $48,718, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 721 housing units. The vacancy rate is 8.2%. On demographic stress specifically, 52142 scores 35/100. About 26% have a four-year degree. 60% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 20.7% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Population is roughly 1,992 with a median age of 31. Around 49% of renters are cost-burdened.

On the whole, 52142 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 52142 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 52142 runs hot or quiet, its 13/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 52142 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Fayette County, Iowa or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 52142, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

52142's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 52142 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.