ZIP 04987 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 04987 (Waldo County, Maine) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 53 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (54/100), structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (36/100). construction/permit lag (36/100) and mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.1% over the trailing year, at 43/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

A median home runs $213,000 here, or 4.1 times local income. Roughly 22.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Vacancy runs 19.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 29% have a four-year degree. 917 residents call 04987 home, typically aged 51. Households earn a median $47,321 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 524 housing units across 04987. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. The tenure split is 92% owner-occupied to 8% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 04987 scores 33/100.

Taken together, 04987 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.