ZIP 11961 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Suffolk County, New York · Distress market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 11961 in Suffolk County, New York comes in at 32, a moderate composite-distress reading. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (72/100), construction/permit lag (54/100), institutional ownership (49/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100). Structurally it carries 72/100, against 7/100 of stress already in motion.
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.9% year on year, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
12,436 residents call 11961 home, typically aged 53. A median home runs $420,800 here, or 4.7 times local income. 3.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 89% of housing is owner-occupied. About 31% have a four-year degree. There are about 6,156 housing units across 11961. The vacancy rate is 9.2%. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. At $86,134, median income runs near typical U.S. levels.
Overall, 11961 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 11961 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Whether 11961 runs hot or quiet, its 32/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 11961 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Suffolk County, New York or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 11961, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
11961's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 11961 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 11961’s distress
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 11961 by the numbers
A live read on 11961: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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Unlock parcel-level detail for ZIP 11961
Every distressed parcel in 11961 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to owner and lender records, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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