ZIP 52253 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 52253 (Cedar County, Iowa) at a low 18/100 for overall property distress. Latent structural risk is 39/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (58/100), structural risk (39/100), institutional ownership (19/100). institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 52253 posted values that rose 3.5% over the year, and 16% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $90,163, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 3.4% — low. Vacancy runs 3.7%. 82% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. About 24% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $238,400 here, or 2.5 times local income. There are about 1,073 housing units across 52253. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. Population is roughly 2,593 with a median age of 45.

On balance, 52253 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. 52253 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 52253 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 18/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Cedar County, Iowa and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 52253 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 52253'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. The point of the 52253 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.