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

Dorchester County, MD, Maryland: 19 ZIP codes scored, Dorchester County, MD averaging 16/100 (low, Dorchester, MD), from 13 to 25. Dorchester County, MD is in its peak phase (Dorchester, MD confidence 20/100): Dorchester, MD home prices up 1.6% (Dorchester, MD) over twelve months. Dorchester County, MD lender headwind: 7/100.

Highest-scoring Dorchester County, MD ZIPs: 19973 (25/100), 21613 (16/100), 21622 (16/100), 21626 (16/100), 21627 (16/100), 21631 (16/100). Also scored in Dorchester County, MD: 21634, 21643, 21648, 21659, 21664, 21669, 21672, 21675, 21677, 21835.

Across Dorchester County, MD's scored ZIPs: median home value $276,265, household income $62,381, 26.7% vacancy, 10.3% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 52.3.

Dorchester County, MD insurance distress 30/100 (#1,618 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Dorchester, MD; 2 federal disaster declarations in Dorchester County, MD since 2023; 61 Dorchester, MD NFIP flood claims, $1.3M paid; Dorchester, MD construction distress 19/100.

7 banks with 12 branches lend in Dorchester County, MD; Dorchester, MD weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 72/100 in Dorchester, MD.

Dorchester County, MD unemployment 4.5% (Dorchester, MD -1.5 pts, six months); 93 new housing units permitted in Dorchester County, MD over twelve months, Dorchester, MD up 31% from 71; Dorchester, MD home prices +11.2% a year (Dorchester, MD) over three years.

16,433 housing units in Dorchester County, MD; 4,487 Dorchester, MD renter households; 44% of Dorchester, MD renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Dorchester, MD) half or more.

Dorchester County, MD ranks #1,656 nationally on the opportunity index (Dorchester, MD, among all ranked counties); Dorchester, MD scores 28.9/100 and Dorchester, MD sits #9 inside Maryland. Dorchester, MD is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Dorchester, MD's primary driver is vacancy, Dorchester, MD second driver bank institutional; Dorchester, MD moved up 393 places. 28 short-sale listings across Dorchester, MD; 103 days on market observed in Dorchester, MD; 17.1% vacancy over 19 Dorchester, MD ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Dorchester County, MD. The state reading for Dorchester, MD: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Dorchester, MD's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.3% (Dorchester, MD, December 2025 data).

Dorchester County, MD has 4 watched banks; 4 Dorchester, MD banks sit in an elevated band. Dorchester, MD footprints: Hebron Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 47) in Dorchester, MD; Bayvanguard Bank (3 branches, stress 40) in Dorchester, MD; Queenstown Bank Of Maryland (1 branch, stress 72) in Dorchester, MD.

HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Dorchester County, MD with 608 units; 334 Dorchester, MD units are assisted, 2 Dorchester, MD properties under project-based Section 8.

2,887 of the 16,433 housing units in Dorchester, MD sit vacant. Dorchester County, MD permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Dorchester, MD's one-to-four unit structures added 93 units in Dorchester County, MD.