ZIP 21659 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Dorchester County, Maryland · Distress market
DLRadar grades ZIP 21659 (Dorchester County, Maryland) at a low 16/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100)). Latent structural risk is 38/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (38/100), institutional ownership (20/100), construction/permit lag (19/100). construction/permit lag (19/100) and mortgage stress (11/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.6% over the trailing year, at 20/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
A median home runs $259,900 here, or 2.9 times local income. 12.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The vacancy rate is 11.9% — elevated. Educational attainment sits at 10% bachelor's-or-above. At $68,889, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. Around 31% of renters are cost-burdened. 1,480 residents call 21659 home, typically aged 50. There are about 650 housing units across 21659. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented.
Overall, 21659 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. While 21659 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
The number is not local guesswork: 21659's 16/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 21659 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 16/100 for 21659 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 21659 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 21659’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
ZIP 21659 Stress Report snapshot
21659 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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