ZIP 20005 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

District Of Columbia County, District of Columbia's ZIP 20005 registers 21/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Its standout signals are structural risk (47/100), institutional ownership (18/100), construction/permit lag (13/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (13/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100)). Structurally it carries 47/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 0.9% over the trailing year, 3.4% off the recent peak, at 13/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

Median household income is $111,960, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 28% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 11.3% live below the poverty line. Population is roughly 12,960 with a median age of 35. A median home runs $640,600 here, or 5.7 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 20005 scores 33/100. The ZIP holds roughly 9,464 housing units. Owners hold 29% of homes, renters 71%. About 80% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 9.1%.

Taken together, 20005 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 20005 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 20005 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 21/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 20005 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 21/100 for 20005 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 20005 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.