ZIP 52242 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Johnson County, Iowa · High Poverty market
ZIP code 52242 in Johnson County, Iowa carries a composite property-distress score of 16/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100). Structural risk reads 33/100 against active distress of 0/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (33/100), construction/permit lag (14/100), institutional ownership (5/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (14/100) and institutional ownership (5/100).
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.3% year on year (phase confidence 29/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
On demographic stress specifically, 52242 scores 64/100. About 4,412 people live here, median age 19. Around 30% of renters are cost-burdened. Owners hold 0% of homes, renters 100%. Educational attainment sits at 0% bachelor's-or-above. The vacancy rate is 0.0%. The poverty rate is 44.7% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. There are about 21 housing units across 52242.
Net-net, 52242 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 52242's 16/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 52242 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
52242's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 52242 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 52242
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
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