Kent County, DE: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Kent County, Delaware, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 26/100 at the top down to 21/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 30 on a 0–100 scale, a contained reading. The county spans 19 scored ZIP codes, averaging 22/100 composite distress.

The county market is in a neutral phase: home prices rose 4.3% over the past year, now 4.9% off the recent peak (phase confidence 36/100). On a market plateau, distress turns selective as the ZIP scores below show.

At +4.3% YoY and 36/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A steady 30/100 bank reading puts the live signals on tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Top distress by ZIP runs 19950 (26/100), 19963 (25/100), 19901 (22/100), 19902 (22/100), 19904 (22/100), 19934 (22/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Also scored across the county: 19936, 19938, 19943, 19946, 19952, 19953, 19954, 19955, 19962, 19964.

By the numbers, the Kent County ZIPs on file run typical home values near $300,067, 78% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $74,445, roughly at the national median, 6.7% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 39.1, 8.6% of households below the poverty line. Taken together, they signal the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

At 22/100 composite over 19 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Kent County parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

No county is too small to score: Kent County, Delaware runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Kent County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Delaware.

Scores in Kent County, Delaware exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Nothing in the Kent County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

Drilling in, Kent County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 19950 (26/100), 19963 (25/100), 19901 (22/100), 19902 (22/100), 19904 (22/100), 19934 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 19936, 19938, 19943, 19946, 19952, 19953, 19954, 19955 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Kent County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.