ZIP 04457 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Penobscot County, Maine's ZIP 04457 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. 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. Structural risk reads 56/100 against active distress of 5/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.4% year on year, 1.3% off the recent peak, and 42% higher over three years, at 56/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $146,300 (2.5× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 21.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 75% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 5,755 people live here, median age 53. There are about 3,456 housing units across 04457. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. At $51,403, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 13.7%.

Net-net, 04457 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.