ZIP 19956 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Sussex County, Delaware · Distress market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 19956 (Sussex County, Delaware) returns a low composite of 26/100. On the structural side it scores 59/100, with 4/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (75/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.
The peak-phase market in 19956 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, and 19% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
66% of housing is owner-occupied. Households earn a median $59,085 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 6,752 housing units. Around 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 8.3%. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. Home values center near $259,500, an affordability ratio of 4.0× — accessible. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. Population is roughly 16,274 with a median age of 37. 18.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.
Net-net, 19956 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 19956 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
The number is not local guesswork: 19956's 26/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 19956 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 26/100 figure for 19956 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. Practically, 19956 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.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 19956
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 19956 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 19956, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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