ZIP 21738 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Howard County, Maryland · High Value market
Howard County, Maryland's ZIP 21738 registers 27/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (66/100). The latent-versus-live split is 61/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (15/100). institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.2% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years (phase confidence 21/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Population is roughly 3,668 with a median age of 47. Owners hold 99% of homes, renters 1%. Home values center near $914,300, an affordability ratio of 3.9× — accessible. The vacancy rate is 0.0%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. Around 76% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Roughly 3.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The ZIP holds roughly 1,121 housing units. At $230,429, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.
Overall, 21738 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. 21738 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
No ZIP is too small to score: 21738 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 27/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 21738 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Behind 21738's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Treat 21738 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
ZIP 21738 distress signals, scored
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 21738 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 21738, the same set carried on every parcel.
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See every distressed parcel in 21738
The full 21738 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
Rules-based scoring — each signal ties to a public dataset · methodology