ZIP 21629 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Caroline County, Maryland · Distress market
ZIP 21629's composite property-distress score is 13/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Caroline County, Maryland. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (74/100). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (31/100), institutional ownership (17/100), construction/permit lag (10/100). construction/permit lag (10/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 31/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.
The expansion-phase market in 21629 posted values that rose 5.3% over the year, and 14% higher over three years (phase confidence 38/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
Population is roughly 10,285 with a median age of 40. At $70,117, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 10.4%. 71% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 45% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. There are about 3,977 housing units across 21629. Around 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $334,200 here, or 4.2 times local income. The poverty rate is 10.5%.
On balance 21629 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 21629 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
The number is not local guesswork: 21629's 13/100 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 as records update; 21629 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 13/100 for 21629 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 21629 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 21629’s distress
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
21629 at a glance
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 21629, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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See every distressed parcel in 21629
Every distressed parcel in 21629 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to owner and lender records, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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