ZIP 52638 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 52638 (Des Moines County, Iowa) at a low 21/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 46/100 against active distress of 5/100. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (47/100), structural risk (46/100), mortgage stress (18/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (18/100) and construction/permit lag (1/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.0% year on year, at 23/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 427 people live here, median age 39. A median home runs $155,500 here, or 2.5 times local income. Households earn a median $63,125 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 262 housing units across 52638. Roughly 11.3% live below the poverty line. Rent burden reaches 52% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 22.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 17% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 80% owner-occupied to 20% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 52638 scores 30/100.

Net-net, 52638 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.