ZIP 52554 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 52554 (Wapello County, Iowa) at a minimal 14/100 for overall property distress. Latent structural risk is 29/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (36/100), structural risk (29/100), mortgage stress (5/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (5/100).

The peak-phase market in 52554 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year (phase confidence 23/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. Roughly 14.1% live below the poverty line. On demographic stress specifically, 52554 scores 25/100. About 1,221 people live here, median age 46. Households earn a median $56,458 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 555 housing units. The typical home is worth about $82,400 (1.7× income, relatively affordable). Owners hold 85% of homes, renters 15%. Around 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 9.3%.

Overall, 52554 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Parcel-level detail for 52554 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

The 52554 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 14/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 52554 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wapello County, Iowa. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 52554, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

52554's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 52554 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.