ZIP 21869 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Dorchester County, Maryland · High Vacancy market
ZIP 21869's composite property-distress score is 17/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Dorchester County, Maryland. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (40/100), construction/permit lag (29/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (11/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 40/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.6% over the trailing year (phase confidence 20/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The typical home is worth about $232,300 (3.0× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 7.7%. About 889 people live here, median age 37. There are about 421 housing units across 21869. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. About 16% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 31.5% — elevated. Around 28% of renters are cost-burdened. Owners hold 85% of homes, renters 15%. At $66,484, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.
Taken together, 21869 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 21869 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 21869 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 17/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Dorchester County, Maryland and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 21869 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Each component behind 21869 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 17/100 roll-up. The point of the 21869 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 21869’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
Snapshot: 21869 by the numbers
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