ZIP 08879 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Middlesex County, New Jersey · Distress market
Scored purely from public records, 08879 (Middlesex County, New Jersey) returns a moderate composite of 30/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (69/100), institutional ownership (21/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (21/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 69 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 31% higher over three years (phase confidence 35/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
Home values center near $389,800, an affordability ratio of 3.9× — accessible. The vacancy rate is 5.3%. Population is roughly 23,263 with a median age of 41. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households. There are about 9,876 housing units across 08879. Around 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. On demographic stress specifically, 08879 scores 32/100. Roughly 10.3% live below the poverty line. 60% of housing is owner-occupied. Median household income is $98,000, above the U.S. median near $78,000.
On balance 08879 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 08879 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 08879's 30/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Middlesex County, New Jersey or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 08879, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 30/100 for 08879 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 08879 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 08879’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
Snapshot: 08879 by the numbers
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