ZIP 52245 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Johnson County, Iowa · High Poverty market
ZIP code 52245 in Johnson County, Iowa carries a composite property-distress score of 16/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The latent-versus-live split is 33/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. Leading the profile are structural risk (33/100), construction/permit lag (14/100), institutional ownership (5/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (5/100) and mortgage stress (4/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (89/100)).
The peak-phase market in 52245 posted values that rose 2.3% over the year, and 18% higher over three years, at 29/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
About 22,765 people live here, median age 31. The typical home is worth about $315,100 (3.9× income, relatively affordable). On demographic stress specifically, 52245 scores 32/100. Roughly 20.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. 58% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 10,114 housing units. Around 68% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 6.2%. Households earn a median $75,876 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.
Net-net, 52245 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 52245 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
The 52245 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 16/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 52245 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Johnson County, Iowa. 52245 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
52245's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 52245 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 52245
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
Snapshot: 52245 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 52245, the same set carried on every parcel.
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The full 52245 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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