ZIP 21850 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wicomico County, Maryland · Distress market
DLRadar grades ZIP 21850 (Wicomico County, Maryland) at a low 18/100 for overall property distress. Latent structural risk is 42/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100. Its standout signals are structural risk (42/100), construction/permit lag (40/100), institutional ownership (15/100). institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100), climate & FEMA risk (64/100)).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year, 1.3% off the recent peak, and 1% lower over three years (phase confidence 33/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
There are about 1,693 housing units across 21850. Vacancy runs 5.3%. 86% of housing is owner-occupied. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. Educational attainment sits at 11% bachelor's-or-above. 10.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. A median home runs $234,500 here, or 2.9 times local income. Around 31% of renters are cost-burdened. 3,733 residents call 21850 home, typically aged 44. At $76,667, median income runs near typical U.S. levels.
Overall, 21850 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Parcel-level detail for 21850 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
No ZIP is too small to score: 21850 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 18/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 21850 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Behind 21850'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 21850 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 21850’s distress
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.
Snapshot: 21850 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 21850, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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