ZIP 52738 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Louisa County, Iowa · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 52738 in Louisa County, Iowa comes in at 5, a minimal composite-distress reading. Structurally it carries 11/100, against 1/100 of stress already in motion. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (13/100), structural risk (11/100), mortgage stress (3/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100).
The peak-phase market in 52738 posted values that rose 2.5% over the year, and 14% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
At $83,953, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The ZIP holds roughly 1,343 housing units. Roughly 11.6% live below the poverty line. About 3,389 people live here, median age 38. Rent burden reaches 18% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $145,700 (1.6× income, relatively affordable). DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 22/100. Owners hold 84% of homes, renters 16%. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 15.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.
Taken together, 52738 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 52738 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
Big metro or rural, 52738 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 5/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Louisa County, Iowa and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 52738, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 5/100 for 52738 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 52738 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Signal-by-signal read on 52738
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
ZIP 52738 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 52738, the same set carried on every parcel.
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