ZIP 04979 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 04979 (Somerset County, Maine) lands at 23/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (68/100). The latent-versus-live split is 49/100 structural and 4/100 already moving. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (71/100), structural risk (49/100), institutional ownership (28/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (28/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.1% year on year (phase confidence 43/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The typical home is worth about $183,600 (3.2× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 9.0%. The ZIP holds roughly 604 housing units. Around 19% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 33.2% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. Around 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 91% of housing is owner-occupied. At $56,136, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 919 people live here, median age 47.

Net-net, 04979 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.