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

Every ZIP in Sussex County, Delaware carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. On bank and credit headwind, Sussex County scores 30/100. DLRadar scores 24 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 20 to 26 out of 100.

Currently peak, Sussex County saw prices rise 4.2% year over year, a 22/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, distress turns selective leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +4.2% YoY and 22/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A steady 30/100 bank reading puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Top distress by ZIP runs 19930 (26/100), 19931 (26/100), 19933 (26/100), 19939 (26/100), 19940 (26/100), 19941 (26/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 19944, 19945, 19947, 19950, 19951, 19956, 19958, 19960, 19966, 19967 among others.

Underneath the scores, the Sussex County ZIPs on file run 24.3% of units sitting vacant, poverty running near 10.8%, residents with a median age around 50.8, 83% owner-occupancy, incomes around $76,682, typical home values near $420,696. Taken together, they frame both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Net of it all, 26/100 over 24 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Sussex County parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

Whether Sussex County, Delaware carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Sussex County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Used properly, Sussex County, Delaware's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Sussex County as a whole. What supports the Sussex County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Sussex County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 19930 (26/100), 19931 (26/100), 19933 (26/100), 19939 (26/100), 19940 (26/100), 19941 (26/100). DLRadar also scores 19944, 19945, 19947, 19950, 19951, 19956, 19958, 19960 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.

DLRadar's composite for Sussex County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.