ZIP 52224 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 52224 in Benton County, Iowa carries a composite property-distress score of 22/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The latent-versus-live split is 50/100 structural and 4/100 already moving. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (90/100), structural risk (50/100), institutional ownership (24/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (24/100) and mortgage stress (13/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.7% over the trailing year, and 44% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

There are about 911 housing units across 52224. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 6.9%. About 26% have a four-year degree. About 1,954 people live here, median age 42. A median home runs $177,000 here, or 2.3 times local income. The poverty rate is 10.6%. On demographic stress specifically, 52224 scores 25/100. Households earn a median $72,917 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented.

On balance 52224 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 52224 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 52224's 22/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Benton County, Iowa or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 52224 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

52224's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 52224 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.