ZIP 08242 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Cape May County, New Jersey · Distress market
Composite property distress in 08242 (Cape May County, New Jersey) lands at 25/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The latent-versus-live split is 57/100 structural and 5/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (57/100), construction/permit lag (56/100), institutional ownership (18/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (17/100).
The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.9% year on year, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 37/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
Population is roughly 4,021 with a median age of 51. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. A median home runs $318,300 here, or 3.1 times local income. The vacancy rate is 11.1%. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 8.8% live below the poverty line. The ZIP holds roughly 2,055 housing units. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. About 31% have a four-year degree. At $97,831, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.
Net-net, 08242 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 08242 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
No ZIP is too small to score: 08242 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. 08242 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
08242's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 08242 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 08242’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
The 08242 distress snapshot
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