ZIP 52657 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 52657 (Lee County, Iowa) at a minimal 10/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (64/100)). Latent structural risk is 20/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (20/100), mortgage stress (3/100), institutional ownership (3/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low.

The peak-phase market in 52657 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year, at 21/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

At $81,250, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 30.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 0.0% — low. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 17/100. About 37% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 48 housing units. About 68 people live here, median age 35. Owners hold 88% of homes, renters 13%. A median home runs $140,600 here, or 1.9 times local income.

Taken together, 52657 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: 52657 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 10/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the public record is thin for 52657, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Each component behind 52657 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 10/100 roll-up. For an operator, 52657 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.