ZIP 19975 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 19975 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 (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). Structural risk reads 60/100 against active distress of 4/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: 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.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 42% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $86,063 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 6.3% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Around 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 35% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $462,700 (5.0× income). Vacancy runs 44.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 9,021 housing units across 19975. The tenure split is 88% owner-occupied to 12% rented. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. About 10,356 people live here, median age 61.

Net-net, 19975 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The 19975 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 19975 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Sussex County, Delaware. Where the public record is thin for 19975, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 26/100 for 19975 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 19975 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.