ZIP 04970 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Franklin County, Maine's ZIP 04970 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (42/100), structural risk (35/100), institutional ownership (28/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (28/100) and mortgage stress (18/100) register low. Structural risk reads 35/100 against active distress of 5/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.1% year on year, and 100% higher over three years, at 43/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 2,211 housing units across 04970. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. 71% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 38/100. The typical home is worth about $422,500 (4.9× income). Vacancy runs 68.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $58,182, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 1,420 people live here, median age 56. The poverty rate is 5.2% — low.

Net-net, 04970 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.