ZIP 21874 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wicomico County, Maryland · High Poverty market
DLRadar grades ZIP 21874 (Wicomico County, Maryland) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 46/100 against active distress of 2/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (55/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (16/100). institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100), climate & FEMA risk (64/100).
The peak-phase market in 21874 posted values that rose 2.8% over the year, 1.3% off the recent peak, and 22% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
A median home runs $236,700 here, or 2.9 times local income. Households earn a median $74,545 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 7.0%. 26.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 815 housing units across 21874. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened. 1,847 residents call 21874 home, typically aged 40. On demographic stress specifically, 21874 scores 32/100. Owners hold 71% of homes, renters 29%. Educational attainment sits at 19% bachelor's-or-above.
Net-net, 21874 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 21874 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Whether 21874 runs hot or quiet, its 20/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 21874 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Wicomico County, Maryland or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 21874 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Each component behind 21874 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 20/100 roll-up. Treat 21874 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 21874’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
21874 at a glance
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 21874, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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