ZIP 21524 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 21524 (Allegany County, Maryland) lands at 15/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (34/100), institutional ownership (20/100), mortgage stress (10/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 34 and live distress 3 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, at 32/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 732 people live here, median age 35. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. There are about 262 housing units across 21524. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 1.9%. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $158,500 (1.9× income, relatively affordable). At $73,661, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 69% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 31.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.

Net-net, 21524 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.