ZIP 94020 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
San Mateo County, California · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 94020 in San Mateo County, California comes in at 27, a low composite-distress reading. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100). On the structural side it scores 61/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (66/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (17/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (8/100).
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 9% higher over three years, at 12/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 22.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Median household income is $250,001, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. Educational attainment sits at 76% bachelor's-or-above. Home values center near $995,900, an affordability ratio of 4.6×. There are about 1,008 housing units across 94020. Population is roughly 1,745 with a median age of 52. 3.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 79% of homes, renters 21%.
Taken together, 94020 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 94020 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 94020 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 27/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 94020 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
94020's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 94020 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 94020
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 94020 by the numbers
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