ZIP 21217 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 21217 (Baltimore County, Maryland) returns a moderate composite of 30/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100). The split runs 68/100 structural to 3/100 active on the ground. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (68/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.2% over the trailing year, and 17% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $37,207, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 30.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 19,995 housing units. Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 44/100. About 31,125 people live here, median age 40. Vacancy runs 25.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 33% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $180,100 (4.7× income).

On the whole, 21217 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 21217's 30/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 21217 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 30/100 figure for 21217 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. In workflow terms, 21217 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.