ZIP 52208 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 52208 (Benton County, Iowa) lands at 20/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Latent structural risk is 46/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (81/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (24/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (24/100) and mortgage stress (10/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.8% year on year, and 7% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $71,336 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 1,397 housing units. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. Roughly 6.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Around 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 2,921 people live here, median age 50. Home values center near $120,700, an affordability ratio of 1.7× — accessible. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 12.2% — elevated.

Taken together, 52208 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 52208 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 52208 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 52208 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

52208'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. In workflow terms, 52208 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.