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

Washington County, Maine is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. On bank and credit headwind, Washington County scores 80/100, a stressed reading. There are 31 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 20/100). The county's ZIP scores run from 20 up to 25/100.

In its peak phase, Washington County home prices rose 2.0% across the last year, a 40/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, distress turns selective leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +2.0% YoY and 40/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. Bank stress at 80/100 is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

The sharpest Washington County readings come from 04424 (25/100), 04622 (21/100), 04413 (20/100), 04454 (20/100), 04490 (20/100), 04491 (20/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Other tracked Washington County ZIPs include 04492, 04606, 04611, 04619, 04623, 04626, 04628, 04630, 04631, 04643.

Underneath the scores, Washington County's tracked footprint come in at household income averaging about $53,600, below the national median, 15% of households below the poverty line, 36.6% of units sitting vacant, 83% of homes owner-occupied, home values averaging roughly $163,297, below the US, residents with a median age around 50.4. Income, equity and tenure like these frame where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

All in at 20/100 over 31 ZIPs, Washington County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Washington County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

No county is too small to score: Washington County, Maine runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Washington County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Maine.

The practical read on Washington County, Maine is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Washington County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Washington County leads with 04424 (25/100), 04622 (21/100), 04413 (20/100), 04454 (20/100), 04490 (20/100), 04491 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 04492, 04606, 04611, 04619, 04623, 04626, 04628, 04630 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 Washington 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.