ZIP 52531 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 52531 (Monroe County, Iowa) lands at 12/100 — minimal on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (85/100), structural risk (29/100), institutional ownership (13/100). institutional ownership (13/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 29/100 against active distress of 2/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year, and 4% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

82% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 2,780 housing units across 52531. 5,885 residents call 52531 home, typically aged 42. The poverty rate is 8.8%. The typical home is worth about $162,100 (1.9× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 13.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100. Educational attainment sits at 21% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $74,081 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households.

Taken together, 52531 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 52531 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The number is not local guesswork: 52531's 12/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 52531 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 52531'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. In workflow terms, 52531 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.