ZIP 52542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Van Buren County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
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 as records update; 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.
What is driving ZIP 52542’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
Snapshot: 52542 by the numbers
52542 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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The complete 52542 distress and acquisition report
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