ZIP 04853 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Knox County, Maine · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 04853 in Knox County, Maine comes in at 19, a low composite-distress reading. Structural risk reads 45/100 against active distress of 6/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (45/100), structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (31/100). construction/permit lag (31/100) and mortgage stress (21/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 40/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
488 residents call 04853 home, typically aged 44. A median home runs $440,200 here, or 4.3 times local income. Households earn a median $93,667 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 542 housing units. The vacancy rate is 63.4% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. Around 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 8.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.
Net-net, 04853 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 04853 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 04853's 19/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Knox County, Maine or any ZIP coast to coast. 04853 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 19/100 for 04853 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 04853 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 04853’s distress
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
04853 at a glance
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 04853, the same set carried on every parcel.
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