ZIP 52217 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 52217's composite property-distress score is 27/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Tama County, Iowa. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (44/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (79/100)). Structural risk reads 63/100 against active distress of 5/100.

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

The vacancy rate is 17.6% — elevated. 17.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. A median home runs $92,100 here, or 1.1 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 252 housing units. Households earn a median $79,583 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 52217 scores 32/100. Around 86% of renters are cost-burdened. 551 residents call 52217 home, typically aged 35.

Taken together, 52217 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 52217 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Big metro or rural, 52217 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 27/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Tama County, Iowa and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 52217 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 52217's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Practically, 52217 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.