ZIP 21840 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wicomico County, Maryland · High Vacancy market
Scored purely from public records, 21840 (Wicomico County, Maryland) returns a low composite of 20/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100), climate & FEMA risk (64/100). On the structural side it scores 46/100, with 0/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (54/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (16/100). institutional ownership (16/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year, 1.3% off the recent peak, at 33/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Roughly 0.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100. Median household income is $120,324, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 52.2% — elevated. Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above. Population is roughly 573 with a median age of 49. Owners hold 78% of homes, renters 22%. Home values center near $10,000. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 328 housing units.
Taken together, 21840 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 21840 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
The number is not local guesswork: 21840's 20/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 21840, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
21840'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, 21840 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 21840
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
The 21840 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 21840, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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