ZIP 52655 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 52655 (Des Moines County, Iowa) returns a low composite of 25/100. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (60/100), structural risk (57/100), institutional ownership (42/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 57/100 while live distress already moving reads 5/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100)).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year, and 9% higher over three years (phase confidence 21/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $54,405, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 4,300 residents call 52655 home, typically aged 40. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. Educational attainment sits at 23% bachelor's-or-above. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. The poverty rate is 23.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The vacancy rate is 5.2%. The ZIP holds roughly 2,002 housing units. The typical home is worth about $132,600 (2.5× income, relatively affordable).

Taken together, 52655 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 52655 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 52655 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 25/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Des Moines County, Iowa and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 52655 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

52655's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 52655 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.