ZIP 52778 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 52778 in Cedar County, Iowa comes in at 18, a low composite-distress reading. Structural risk reads 40/100 against active distress of 4/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (43/100), structural risk (40/100), institutional ownership (35/100). institutional ownership (35/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) stay muted.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.6% year on year, and 27% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $202,200 (2.4× income, relatively affordable). 5.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 6.6%. Households earn a median $74,625 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 75% of homes, renters 25%. Educational attainment sits at 31% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. The ZIP holds roughly 1,697 housing units. 3,677 residents call 52778 home, typically aged 47.

Overall, 52778 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. No parcel file is published for 52778 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Whether 52778 runs hot or quiet, its 18/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 52778 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Cedar County, Iowa or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 52778 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

52778's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 52778 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.