ZIP 21046 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Howard County, Maryland · Distress market
In Howard County, Maryland, ZIP 21046 scores 27 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (16/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (6/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100). Structural exposure scores 62 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.
The peak-phase market in 21046 posted values that rose 2.2% over the year, and 21% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Median household income is $126,549, above the U.S. median near $78,000. On demographic stress specifically, 21046 scores 26/100. Vacancy runs 4.1%. Rent burden reaches 31% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 6,382 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 62% bachelor's-or-above. 8.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 15,433 people live here, median age 38. Home values center near $479,500, an affordability ratio of 3.7× — accessible. Owners hold 63% of homes, renters 37%.
Net-net, 21046 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 21046 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: 21046 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 27/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 21046, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 27/100 for 21046 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 21046 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 21046
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
21046 at a glance
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 21046, the same set carried on every parcel.
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