ZIP 52551 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Van Buren County, Iowa's ZIP 52551 registers 10/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (46/100), structural risk (22/100), mortgage stress (4/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Structurally it carries 22/100, against 1/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year (phase confidence 28/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $97,000 (1.1× income, relatively affordable). 91% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 25.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $87,578, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100. 4.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 672 residents call 52551 home, typically aged 45. Rent burden reaches 57% of tenant households. There are about 418 housing units across 52551. Educational attainment sits at 28% bachelor's-or-above.

On the whole, 52551 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 52551 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Big metro or rural, 52551 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 10/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Van Buren County, Iowa and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 52551 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

52551's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 52551 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.