ZIP 19970 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 19970 (Sussex County, Delaware) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up 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. Structurally it carries 60/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion.

The peak-phase market in 19970 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, and 13% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 53.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 8,567 housing units across 19970. The typical home is worth about $526,600 (5.4× income). DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 39/100. Owners hold 91% of homes, renters 9%. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. 8,265 residents call 19970 home, typically aged 63. The poverty rate is 12.8%. At $90,802, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 19970 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 19970 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 19970's 26/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 19970 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 19970's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Practically, 19970 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.