ZIP 21742 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Washington County, Maryland · Distress market
In Washington County, Maryland, ZIP 21742 scores 24 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Structurally it carries 57/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (93/100), structural risk (57/100), institutional ownership (15/100). institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (69/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (64/100).
The peak-phase market in 21742 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, 2.9% off the recent peak, and 19% higher over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The tenure split is 67% owner-occupied to 33% rented. Households earn a median $80,533 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 35,114 with a median age of 41. The ZIP holds roughly 13,888 housing units. The typical home is worth about $304,800 (3.5× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. The vacancy rate is 5.6%. Educational attainment sits at 30% bachelor's-or-above. The poverty rate is 11.3%. Rent burden reaches 31% of tenant households.
On balance 21742 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 21742 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 21742 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 24/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the public record is thin for 21742, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
The 24/100 figure for 21742 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 21742 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 21742
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
The 21742 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 21742, the same set carried on every parcel.
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