ZIP 08536 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 08536 (Middlesex County, New Jersey) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (21/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (21/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Structural exposure scores 67 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.2% over the trailing year, and 37% higher over three years (phase confidence 35/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Vacancy runs 3.7%. 2.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 44% of housing is owner-occupied. On demographic stress specifically, 08536 scores 27/100. The ZIP holds roughly 8,468 housing units. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $704,100 (5.1× income). Households earn a median $128,426 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 20,558 people live here, median age 37. About 79% have a four-year degree.

Overall, 08536 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. No parcel file is published for 08536 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Whether 08536 runs hot or quiet, its 29/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 08536 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Middlesex County, New Jersey or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 08536, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

08536'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. Treat 08536 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.