ZIP 94521 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 94521 in Contra Costa County, California comes in at 24, a low composite-distress reading. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (37/100), institutional ownership (16/100). institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100). On the structural side it scores 53/100, with 2/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 2% higher over three years, at 12/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

At $127,312, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. 5.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 16,451 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 94521 scores 37/100. Population is roughly 41,118 with a median age of 43. Educational attainment sits at 44% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 3.0%. A median home runs $853,200 here, or 6.5 times local income. The tenure split is 73% owner-occupied to 27% rented.

On balance 94521 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 94521's 24/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Contra Costa County, California or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 94521 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

94521's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 94521 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.