ZIP 19979 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Kent County, Delaware · Distress market
ZIP 19979's composite property-distress score is 22/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Kent County, Delaware. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (50/100), construction/permit lag (42/100), institutional ownership (16/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (85/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (72/100). Structural risk reads 50/100 against active distress of 2/100.
The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.3% year on year, 4.9% off the recent peak, at 36/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 246 housing units. Home values center near $293,900, an affordability ratio of 2.8× — accessible. Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Median household income is $95,325, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 21/100. 9.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 503 people live here, median age 40. The vacancy rate is 0.0%. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented.
Overall 19979 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 19979 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 22/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Kent County, Delaware and the nation. Sparse data for 19979 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
Each component behind 19979 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 22/100 roll-up. The point of the 19979 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
ZIP 19979 distress signals, scored
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 19979 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 19979, the same set carried on every parcel.
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