ZIP 21649 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 21649 in Queen Anne's County, Maryland comes in at 19, a low composite-distress reading. Latent structural risk is 46/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (73/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (18/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (8/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 21/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 15.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $222,700 (3.4× income, relatively affordable). Roughly 15.3% live below the poverty line. About 18% have a four-year degree. There are about 656 housing units across 21649. At $58,464, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The tenure split is 85% owner-occupied to 15% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 21649 scores 38/100. 1,938 residents call 21649 home, typically aged 35. Rent burden reaches 76% of tenant households.

Taken together, 21649 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 21649 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 21649 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 19/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 21649 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Queen Anne's County, Maryland. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 21649 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 19/100 for 21649 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, 21649 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.