ZIP 21737 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Howard County, Maryland's ZIP 21737 registers 27/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 62 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (16/100). institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.2% over the trailing year, and 39% higher over three years (phase confidence 21/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

A median home runs $996,400 here, or 4.1 times local income. The poverty rate is 0.8% — low. Population is roughly 2,384 with a median age of 38. At $250,001, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 92% of homes, renters 8%. Vacancy runs 0.0%. Around 74% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 18/100. There are about 739 housing units across 21737. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households.

Net-net, 21737 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 21737 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 21737's 27/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 21737 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

21737'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. For a buyer, 21737 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.