ZIP 04973 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 04973 (Waldo County, Maine) returns a low composite of 25/100. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (57/100), institutional ownership (47/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. The split runs 57/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year, at 40/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

5.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 27% of tenant households. Households earn a median $85,192 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 04973 scores 24/100. Owners hold 92% of homes, renters 8%. About 32% have a four-year degree. About 1,494 people live here, median age 44. The vacancy rate is 18.1% — elevated. There are about 798 housing units across 04973. A median home runs $284,000 here, or 3.0 times local income.

Net-net, 04973 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 04973 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 04973 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 25/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 04973, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

04973's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 04973 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.