ZIP 52401 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Linn County, Iowa · High Poverty market
ZIP code 52401 in Linn County, Iowa carries a composite property-distress score of 26/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structurally it carries 60/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (60/100), institutional ownership (19/100). institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100).
Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.9% over the trailing year (phase confidence 33/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
About 2,192 people live here, median age 36. A median home runs $157,100 here, or 3.5 times local income. Roughly 22.7% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The vacancy rate is 9.5%. Owners hold 15% of homes, renters 85%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. Rent burden reaches 28% of tenant households. There are about 1,497 housing units across 52401. Households earn a median $40,675 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 35% have a four-year degree.
Net-net, 52401 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 52401 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Whether 52401 runs hot or quiet, its 26/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 52401 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Linn County, Iowa or nationwide. Where the public record is thin for 52401, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
Behind 52401'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. For an operator, 52401 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
ZIP 52401 distress signals, scored
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 52401 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 52401, the same set carried on every parcel.
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