ZIP 04448 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Penobscot County, Maine's ZIP 04448 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 56 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (79/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (56/100), construction/permit lag (43/100), institutional ownership (40/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (17/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.4% year on year, 1.3% off the recent peak, at 56/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

84% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 659 housing units across 04448. Vacancy runs 16.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $152,000 (2.4× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 22.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. At $48,958, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 16% of tenant households. About 1,489 people live here, median age 48. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100.

Net-net, 04448 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.