ZIP 08226 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 08226 (Cape May County, New Jersey) at a low 25/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 56/100 against active distress of 5/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (56/100), construction/permit lag (54/100), institutional ownership (18/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (17/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100)).

The expansion-phase market in 08226 posted values that rose 6.5% over the year, and 14% higher over three years, at 58/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 11,260 with a median age of 57. The typical home is worth about $840,500 (7.1× income, severely stretched). 72% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 21,191 housing units across 08226. At $101,782, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 46/100. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. Around 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 73.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 7.9%.

On the whole, 08226 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.