ZIP 24221 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 24221 (Lee County, Virginia) at a low 17/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (48/100), structural risk (36/100), mortgage stress (20/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (7/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). Structural exposure scores 36 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.0% year on year, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 380 housing units. At $51,719, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Population is roughly 717 with a median age of 51. The vacancy rate is 35.2% — elevated. On demographic stress specifically, 24221 scores 23/100. 18.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The tenure split is 99% owner-occupied to 1% rented. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. A median home runs $119,500 here, or 2.4 times local income.

Net-net, 24221 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 24221 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 24221 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 17/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 24221 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 17/100 for 24221 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 24221 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.