ZIP 04491 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Washington County, Maine · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 04491 (Washington County, Maine) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (69/100)). The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (47/100), structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (28/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (28/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 45/100 structural and 0/100 already moving.
The peak-phase market in 04491 posted values that rose 2.0% over the year (phase confidence 40/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Owners hold 93% of homes, renters 7%. The poverty rate is 5.7% — low. A median home runs $113,500 here, or 2.1 times local income. Around 4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 130 housing units. Vacancy runs 43.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 100% of renters are cost-burdened. Households earn a median $53,500 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 158 with a median age of 59. On demographic stress specifically, 04491 scores 37/100.
Net-net, 04491 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 04491 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 04491 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 04491 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
04491's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. The point of the 04491 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 04491’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
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