ZIP 21224 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Baltimore County, Maryland · High Vacancy market
Scored purely from public records, 21224 (Baltimore County, Maryland) returns a low composite of 28/100. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (83/100), structural risk (64/100), institutional ownership (18/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100). On the structural side it scores 64/100, with 3/100 of stress already active.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.2% year on year, and 9% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
17.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 23,547 housing units. At $86,209, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Around 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 45% of tenant households. 60% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 13.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 21224 scores 31/100. Population is roughly 46,949 with a median age of 34. Home values center near $295,200, an affordability ratio of 3.3× — accessible.
On the whole, 21224 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 21224 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 21224's 28/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Baltimore County, Maryland or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 21224, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 28/100 figure for 21224 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. For an operator, 21224 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 21224
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.
Snapshot: 21224 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 21224, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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