ZIP 52342 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Tama County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
Composite property distress in 52342 (Tama County, Iowa) lands at 26/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (37/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (37/100) and mortgage stress (18/100). Structural risk reads 59/100 against active distress of 5/100.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, and 40% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
The ZIP holds roughly 1,351 housing units. The poverty rate is 18.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. A median home runs $142,700 here, or 2.2 times local income. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. Median household income is $62,344, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Population is roughly 2,898 with a median age of 46. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 13.0% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100.
Taken together, 52342 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 52342 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 52342 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 26/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 52342 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
52342'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, 52342 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 52342
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 52342 by the numbers
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