ZIP 21917 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Cecil County, Maryland's ZIP 21917 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The latent-versus-live split is 61/100 structural and 3/100 already moving. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (62/100).

The peak-phase market in 21917 posted values that rose 1.6% over the year, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 20/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Educational attainment sits at 14% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 99% of homes, renters 1%. Vacancy runs 0.0%. The ZIP holds roughly 818 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. About 1,786 people live here, median age 52. Median household income is $104,583, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The typical home is worth about $409,400 (3.5× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 5.5% — low.

On balance 21917 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. There is no property file for 21917 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

The 21917 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 26/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 21917 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Cecil County, Maryland. 21917 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

21917's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 21917 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.