ZIP 21829 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 21829 in Worcester County, Maryland comes in at 23, a low composite-distress reading. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (69/100), climate & FEMA risk (68/100)). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (80/100), structural risk (54/100), mortgage stress (17/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (17/100) and institutional ownership (16/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 54/100 while live distress already moving reads 5/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.6% over the trailing year (phase confidence 20/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

259 residents call 21829 home, typically aged 65. Owners hold 92% of homes, renters 8%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 15/100. Vacancy runs 32.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $270,900 (1.2× income, relatively affordable). Educational attainment sits at 34% bachelor's-or-above. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. At $155,676, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The ZIP holds roughly 227 housing units. Roughly 5.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.

Taken together, 21829 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 21829 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Big metro or rural, 21829 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 23/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Worcester County, Maryland and the nation. 21829 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 23/100 figure for 21829 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. The point of the 21829 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.