ZIP 52721 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 52721's composite property-distress score is 17/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Cedar County, Iowa. Latent structural risk is 37/100 while live distress already moving reads 4/100. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (71/100), structural risk (37/100), institutional ownership (28/100). institutional ownership (28/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $75,536 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above. 9.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%. Home values center near $200,600, an affordability ratio of 2.4× — accessible. Population is roughly 874 with a median age of 44. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. The ZIP holds roughly 354 housing units. The vacancy rate is 12.8% — elevated.

Taken together, 52721 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 52721 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Big metro or rural, 52721 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 17/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Cedar County, Iowa and the nation. Sparse data for 52721 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

The 17/100 for 52721 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 52721 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.