Kent County, MD: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Kent County, MD, Maryland: 9 ZIP codes scored, Kent County, MD averaging 18/100 (low, Kent, MD), from 18 to 19. Kent County, MD is in its expansion phase (Kent, MD confidence 38/100): Kent, MD home prices up 5.3% (Kent, MD) over twelve months. Kent County, MD lender headwind: 0/100.
Highest-scoring Kent County, MD ZIPs: 21620 (19/100), 21651 (19/100), 21610 (18/100), 21635 (18/100), 21645 (18/100), 21650 (18/100). Also scored in Kent County, MD: 21661, 21667, 21678.
Across Kent County, MD's scored ZIPs: median home value $302,889, household income $78,203, 18.2% vacancy, 9.4% poverty, 82% owner-occupied, median age 51.0.
Kent County, MD insurance distress 30/100 (#1,603 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Kent, MD; 2 federal disaster declarations in Kent County, MD since 2023; 11 Kent, MD NFIP flood claims, $730K paid; Kent, MD construction distress 78/100.
4 banks with 6 branches lend in Kent County, MD; Kent, MD weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 63/100 in Kent, MD.
Kent County, MD unemployment 3.7% (Kent, MD -2.2 pts, six months); 43 new housing units permitted in Kent County, MD over twelve months, Kent, MD down 27% from 59; Kent, MD home prices +11.2% a year (Kent, MD) over three years.
10,363 housing units in Kent County, MD; 2,383 Kent, MD renter households; 50% of Kent, MD renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Kent, MD) half or more.
Kent County, MD ranks #1,214 nationally on the opportunity index (Kent, MD, among all ranked counties); Kent, MD scores 30.4/100 and Kent, MD sits #7 inside Maryland. Kent, MD is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Kent, MD's primary driver is construction, Kent, MD second driver vacancy; Kent, MD moved up 282 places. 6 short-sale listings across Kent, MD; 64 days on market observed in Kent, MD; 15.2% vacancy over 9 Kent, MD ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Kent County, MD. The state reading for Kent, MD: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Kent, MD's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.3% (Kent, MD, December 2025 data).
Kent County, MD has 2 watched banks; 2 Kent, MD banks sit in an elevated band. Kent, MD footprints: Chesapeake Bank&Trust Co (3 branches, stress 53) in Kent, MD; Shore United Bank Na (1 branch, stress 61) in Kent, MD.
HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Kent County, MD with 94 units; 60 Kent, MD units are assisted, 2 Kent, MD properties under project-based Section 8.
1,870 of the 10,363 housing units in Kent, MD sit vacant. Kent County, MD permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Kent, MD's one-to-four unit structures added 43 units in Kent County, MD.