ZIP 19947 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 19947 (Sussex County, Delaware) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. Latent structural risk is 60/100 while live distress already moving reads 4/100. Property-level stress concentrates 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. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100).

The peak-phase market in 19947 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, and 12% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

About 19,343 people live here, median age 37. A median home runs $322,300 here, or 4.3 times local income. The poverty rate is 11.4%. Vacancy runs 8.8%. Owners hold 68% of homes, renters 32%. At $68,529, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 57% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 7,425 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100.

On balance 19947 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 19947 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The 19947 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 26/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 19947 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Sussex County, Delaware. 19947 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 26/100 figure for 19947 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 19947 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.