Franklin County, ME: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Franklin County, Maine sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. There are 18 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 17/100). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 16 to 23 out of 100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 34/100 (contained).

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.0% over the past year, at 40/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, broad sweeps stop paying as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.0% YoY (40/100 confidence), the wins are surgical and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Lender stress at 34/100 (contained) puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.

The sharpest Franklin County readings come from 04964 (23/100), 04224 (21/100), 04234 (16/100), 04239 (16/100), 04285 (16/100), 04294 (16/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 04936, 04938, 04940, 04947, 04955, 04956, 04966, 04970, 04982, 04983 among others.

By the numbers, Franklin County's scored ZIPs run typical home values near $228,840, 44.9% of units sitting vacant, poverty running near 13%, residents with a median age around 48.2, 82% of homes owner-occupied, incomes around $60,158. These fundamentals signal who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

At 17/100 composite over 18 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Franklin County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

The way to work Franklin County, Maine is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 23/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Franklin County with undifferentiated outreach. All Franklin County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

The ZIP breakdown for Franklin County leads with 04964 (23/100), 04224 (21/100), 04234 (16/100), 04239 (16/100), 04285 (16/100), 04294 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 04936, 04938, 04940, 04947, 04955, 04956, 04966, 04970 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.

DLRadar's composite for Franklin 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.