ZIP 52246 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Johnson County, Iowa's ZIP 52246 registers 18/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100). On the structural side it scores 39/100, with 1/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (39/100), construction/permit lag (24/100), institutional ownership (8/100). institutional ownership (8/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) stay muted.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.3% year on year, and 19% higher over three years (phase confidence 29/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Around 67% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 9.4%. Median household income is $55,088, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 10,654 housing units. Rent burden reaches 54% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $348,900 (5.9× income). Roughly 25.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Owners hold 43% of homes, renters 57%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 41/100. Population is roughly 21,944 with a median age of 29.

Net-net, 52246 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 52246 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 52246 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 18/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 52246 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 52246 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 18/100 roll-up. Treat 52246 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.