ZIP 21661 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Kent County, Maryland · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 21661 in Kent County, Maryland comes in at 18, a low composite-distress reading. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (77/100), structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (11/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 45/100 against active distress of 3/100.
The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.3% year on year, and 16% higher over three years, at 38/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
Home values center near $283,200, an affordability ratio of 3.0× — accessible. At $87,778, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The ZIP holds roughly 1,784 housing units. Vacancy runs 33.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 37% have a four-year degree. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. The poverty rate is 10.3%. Population is roughly 2,400 with a median age of 59. Rent burden reaches 28% of tenant households.
Taken together, 21661 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
No ZIP is too small to score: 21661 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 18/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 21661 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
21661's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 21661 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.
What is driving ZIP 21661’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
21661 at a glance
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