ZIP 08244 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 08244's composite property-distress score is 27/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Atlantic County, New Jersey. Structurally it carries 62/100, against 3/100 of stress already in motion. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100)). Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (66/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) register low.

The expansion-phase market in 08244 posted values that rose 5.9% over the year, and 31% higher over three years (phase confidence 37/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

A median home runs $310,400 here, or 4.1 times local income. Median household income is $67,500, below the U.S. median near $78,000. About 10,611 people live here, median age 44. 50% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 30% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. Vacancy runs 17.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 11.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 5,862 housing units across 08244. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened.

Net-net, 08244 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 08244 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 08244 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 27/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 08244 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 27/100 figure for 08244 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 08244 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.