ZIP 19940 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Sussex County, Delaware · High Vacancy market
In Sussex County, Delaware, ZIP 19940 scores 26 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). On the structural side it scores 60/100, with 4/100 of stress already active. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (60/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) register low.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%. Roughly 14.2% live below the poverty line. The vacancy rate is 13.3% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 26% of tenant households. At $63,361, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 22% have a four-year degree. About 7,108 people live here, median age 42. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. The ZIP holds roughly 2,743 housing units. A median home runs $235,300 here, or 3.6 times local income.
Net-net, 19940 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 19940 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 26/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Sussex County, Delaware and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 19940 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 26/100 figure for 19940 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. The point of the 19940 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
ZIP 19940 distress signals, scored
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 19940 Stress Report snapshot
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