ZIP 04947 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 04947 in Franklin County, Maine comes in at 16, a low composite-distress reading. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (40/100), structural risk (33/100), institutional ownership (25/100). institutional ownership (25/100) and mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 33/100, with 5/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, and 39% higher over three years, at 40/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

A median home runs $251,900 here, or 3.7 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. Population is roughly 1,584 with a median age of 56. The tenure split is 91% owner-occupied to 9% rented. Around 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 72.1% — elevated. There are about 2,992 housing units across 04947. Median household income is $67,292, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The poverty rate is 11.3%. Around 19% of renters are cost-burdened.

Net-net, 04947 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 04947 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 04947 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 16/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 04947 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Franklin County, Maine. Sparse data for 04947 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

The 16/100 figure for 04947 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 04947 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.