ZIP 20879 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 20879 in Montgomery County, Maryland carries a composite property-distress score of 20/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural risk reads 43/100 against active distress of 2/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (92/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100)). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (43/100), institutional ownership (18/100), mortgage stress (7/100). institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.6% over the trailing year, and 9% higher over three years (phase confidence 20/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 26,120 with a median age of 36. The typical home is worth about $468,100 (4.1× income). The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. At $105,109, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. There are about 8,818 housing units across 20879. About 42% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 1.8%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. The poverty rate is 6.6% — low. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened.

Net-net, 20879 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 20879 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 20879 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 20/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 20879 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Montgomery County, Maryland. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 20879 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 20879 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 20/100 roll-up. The point of the 20879 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.