ZIP 52571 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Appanoose County, Iowa's ZIP 52571 registers 15/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (96/100), structural risk (35/100), mortgage stress (6/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (6/100) and institutional ownership (6/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 35/100 structural and 2/100 already moving.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year (phase confidence 28/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

There are about 830 housing units across 52571. Households earn a median $80,208 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 84% of homes, renters 16%. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. 1,516 residents call 52571 home, typically aged 42. About 31% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 21.8% — elevated. The poverty rate is 9.6%. The typical home is worth about $197,800 (2.5× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100.

Taken together, 52571 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 52571 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 52571 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 15/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 52571 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 52571's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Treat 52571 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.