ZIP 19968 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Sussex County, Delaware · High Vacancy market
In Sussex County, Delaware, ZIP 19968 scores 26 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). The split runs 60/100 structural to 4/100 active on the ground. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (60/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 13% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The typical home is worth about $437,000 (5.1× income). Around 56% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. Educational attainment sits at 41% bachelor's-or-above. The poverty rate is 8.4%. Owners hold 90% of homes, renters 10%. Median household income is $81,646, near the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 7,751 housing units across 19968. Population is roughly 14,791 with a median age of 54. Vacancy runs 17.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.
Net-net, 19968 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 19968 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Whether 19968 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 19968 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Sussex County, Delaware or nationwide. 19968 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 26/100 for 19968 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 19968 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
ZIP 19968 distress signals, scored
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
Snapshot: 19968 by the numbers
A live read on 19968: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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