ZIP 54024 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Polk County, Wisconsin, ZIP 54024 scores 20 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (64/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (63/100). Latent structural risk is 46/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (57/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (15/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (9/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.6% over the trailing year, and 29% higher over three years (phase confidence 40/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Households earn a median $76,455 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $271,900 here, or 3.3 times local income. 6.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 18.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. Around 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 2,717 housing units across 54024. 5,020 residents call 54024 home, typically aged 47. Around 16% of renters are cost-burdened. Owners hold 76% of homes, renters 24%.

Taken together, 54024 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 54024 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 54024 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 20/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Polk County, Wisconsin and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 54024, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

54024'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. The point of the 54024 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.