ZIP 21648 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Dorchester County, Maryland · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 21648 in Dorchester County, Maryland carries a composite property-distress score of 16/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Leading the profile are structural risk (38/100), institutional ownership (20/100), construction/permit lag (19/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and construction/permit lag (19/100) register low. Structurally it carries 38/100, against 0/100 of stress already in motion. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100).
The peak-phase market in 21648 posted values that rose 1.6% over the year (phase confidence 20/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Rent burden reaches 100% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 59/100. 104 residents call 21648 home, typically aged 62. Home values center near $195,000. The poverty rate is 6.1% — low. There are about 89 housing units across 21648. Owners hold 98% of homes, renters 3%. The vacancy rate is 31.0% — elevated. About 15% have a four-year degree.
Taken together, 21648 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 21648 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
The 21648 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 16/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 21648 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Dorchester County, Maryland. Where the record is thin for 21648, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
The 16/100 for 21648 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 21648 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
Signal-by-signal read on 21648
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 21648 Stress Report snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 21648, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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