ZIP 19973 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Sussex County, Delaware · Distress market
ZIP code 19973 in Sussex County, Delaware carries a composite property-distress score of 26/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100). Structural risk reads 59/100 against active distress of 4/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.0% year on year, and 29% higher over three years (phase confidence 21/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
16.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 25,786 with a median age of 43. Households earn a median $62,668 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. The ZIP holds roughly 11,141 housing units. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $278,300 here, or 4.1 times local income. 73% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 7.4%.
On balance 19973 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 19973 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
Big metro or rural, 19973 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 26/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Sussex County, Delaware and the nation. 19973 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Behind 19973'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. Treat 19973 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 19973
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 19973 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 19973, the same set carried on every parcel.
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Unlock parcel-level detail for ZIP 19973
The full 19973 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through funding and closing. Refreshed continuously.
Rules-based scoring — each signal ties to a public dataset · methodology