ZIP 11944 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Suffolk County, New York's ZIP 11944 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (57/100), institutional ownership (51/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Latent structural risk is 75/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.9% over the trailing year, and 25% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $79,917 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The poverty rate is 9.4%. Population is roughly 4,744 with a median age of 52. 64% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 58% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $885,800 (10.3× income, severely stretched). Around 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 54/100. Vacancy runs 34.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 3,096 housing units.

On the whole, 11944 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.

The 11944 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 34/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 11944 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Suffolk County, New York. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 11944 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Each component behind 11944 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 34/100 roll-up. The point of the 11944 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.