Allegany County, MD: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Allegany County, Maryland is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Lender pressure in Allegany County registers 49/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Individual Allegany County ZIPs score between 15 and 21 on the 0–100 composite. 16 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 20/100 distress.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 1.6% over twelve months, at 20/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, distress turns selective leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +1.6% YoY (20/100 confidence), selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 49/100 lender headwind means both signal sets in play here.

The sharpest Allegany County readings come from 21502 (21/100), 21524 (21/100), 21529 (21/100), 21530 (21/100), 21540 (21/100), 21542 (21/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 21543, 21545, 21555, 21557, 21560, 21766, 21532, 21521, 21539, 21562 among others.

Underneath the scores, Allegany County's tracked footprint run a median household income near $58,398 (below the US norm), a median age of 44.1, 16.5% of households below the poverty line, 19.4% of units sitting vacant, 74% owner-occupancy, typical home values near $147,573. Taken together, they drive both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

With a low 20/100 reading over 16 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Allegany County property carries owner, address and APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

In Allegany County, Maryland, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Allegany County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Allegany County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 21502 (21/100), 21524 (21/100), 21529 (21/100), 21530 (21/100), 21540 (21/100), 21542 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 21543, 21545, 21555, 21557, 21560, 21766, 21532, 21521 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 Allegany 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.