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

For Kent County, Maryland, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 0 on a 0–100 scale, a low reading. There are 9 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 19/100).

In its expansion phase, Kent County home prices rose 5.3% across the last year, at 38/100 phase confidence. Even as prices climb, a subset takes on water even as the headline looks strong.

Through Kent County's +5.3% YoY climb (38/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster where the scoring still flags pressure. A steady 0/100 bank reading points the search to tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Top distress by ZIP runs 21610 (19/100), 21620 (19/100), 21635 (19/100), 21645 (19/100), 21650 (19/100), 21651 (19/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 21661, 21667, 21678 among others.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Kent County come in at home values averaging roughly $302,889, in line with the US, 82% owner-occupancy, 9.4% of households below the poverty line, a 18.2% vacancy rate, a median age of 51, household income averaging about $78,203, roughly at the national median. Taken together, they frame the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 19/100 reading over 9 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Kent County parcel's owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Whether Kent County, Maryland 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 Kent County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

In Kent 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 Kent County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Kent County are 21610 (19/100), 21620 (19/100), 21635 (19/100), 21645 (19/100), 21650 (19/100), 21651 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 21661, 21667, 21678 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

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.