ZIP 52542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 52542's composite property-distress score is 10/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Van Buren County, Iowa. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (50/100), structural risk (22/100), mortgage stress (5/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 22 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.9% year on year, at 29/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The tenure split is 88% owner-occupied to 12% rented. A median home runs $100,000 here, or 1.7 times local income. At $64,583, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 14.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 529 people live here, median age 44. Rent burden reaches 72% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. The ZIP holds roughly 264 housing units. About 15% have a four-year degree. The poverty rate is 6.9% — low.

Net-net, 52542 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 52542 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 52542 runs hot or quiet, its 10/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 52542 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Van Buren County, Iowa or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 52542 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Each component behind 52542 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 10/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 52542 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.