ZIP 52581 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Appanoose County, Iowa's ZIP 52581 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 36/100 against active distress of 1/100. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (95/100), structural risk (36/100), mortgage stress (5/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The tenure split is 69% owner-occupied to 31% rented. Around 9% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 7.0% — low. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100. The ZIP holds roughly 84 housing units. About 13% have a four-year degree. About 229 people live here, median age 51. Vacancy runs 15.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $53,631, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. A median home runs $154,900 here, or 3.0 times local income.

Taken together, 52581 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 52581 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 16/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 52581 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

52581's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 52581 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.