ZIP 52553 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wapello County, Iowa · Affordable market
Composite property distress in 52553 (Wapello County, Iowa) lands at 12/100 — minimal on DLRadar's distress scoring. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (50/100), structural risk (27/100), institutional ownership (6/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (6/100) and mortgage stress (5/100) register low. Structural risk reads 27/100 against active distress of 1/100.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 23/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The ZIP holds roughly 777 housing units. Home values center near $150,000, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. 14.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The vacancy rate is 8.7%. Rent burden reaches 17% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above. Population is roughly 1,871 with a median age of 43. Households earn a median $62,341 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.
Overall, 52553 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. While 52553 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Big metro or rural, 52553 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 12/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Wapello County, Iowa and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 52553 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 12/100 for 52553 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 52553 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 52553’s distress
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
Snapshot: 52553 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 52553, the same set carried on every parcel.
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