ZIP 19944 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Sussex County, Delaware, ZIP 19944 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). Structural exposure scores 60 and live distress 4 on the 0–100 scale. The pressure is most legible in 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.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 56% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented. There are about 1,609 housing units across 19944. Educational attainment sits at 50% bachelor's-or-above. Home values center near $1,189,300, an affordability ratio of 11.3× — stretched. At $103,125, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. On demographic stress specifically, 19944 scores 45/100. Roughly 2.6% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Vacancy runs 80.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. About 652 people live here, median age 72.

On the whole, 19944 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.

Whether 19944 runs hot or quiet, its 26/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 19944 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Sussex County, Delaware or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 19944, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

19944's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 19944 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.