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

For Wicomico County, Maryland, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. ZIP-level distress ranges from 22/100 at the top down to 20/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 24/100. There are 16 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 20/100).

Currently peak, Wicomico County saw prices rise 2.7% year over year, now 1.3% off the recent peak (phase confidence 33/100). At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Wicomico County flat at +2.7% YoY (33/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A steady 24/100 bank reading favors owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Wicomico County are 21822 (22/100), 21804 (21/100), 21801 (20/100), 21810 (20/100), 21814 (20/100), 21826 (20/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 21830, 21837, 21840, 21849, 21850, 21856, 21861, 21865, 21874, 21875 among others.

On the housing-and-income side, Wicomico County's scored ZIPs come in at residents with a median age around 44.1, 79% owner-occupancy, 10.8% of households below the poverty line, household income averaging about $71,389, roughly at the national median, median home values around $236,464 (below the national figure), 13.4% of units sitting vacant. Read together, they signal the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 20/100 composite over 16 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Unlock Wicomico County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

The distress read for Wicomico County, Maryland is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Wicomico County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Read Wicomico County, Maryland as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 20/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Wicomico County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

The ZIP breakdown for Wicomico County leads with 21822 (22/100), 21804 (21/100), 21801 (20/100), 21810 (20/100), 21814 (20/100), 21826 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 21830, 21837, 21840, 21849, 21850, 21856, 21861, 21865 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

The Wicomico County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.