ZIP 21856 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In Wicomico County, Maryland, ZIP 21856 scores 23 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Structural risk reads 54/100 against active distress of 2/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100), climate & FEMA risk (64/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (87/100), structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (16/100). institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.9% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years, at 57/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

816 residents call 21856 home, typically aged 53. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented. About 20% have a four-year degree. There are about 423 housing units across 21856. Households earn a median $77,946 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 23.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 16.7% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. A median home runs $380,600 here, or 3.1 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 21856 scores 25/100.

Taken together, 21856 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.