Maryland Foreclosure Intent Notices by Census Tract

Maryland Notices of Intent to Foreclose (NOI) data provides annual totals by census tract, compiled from third-party filings reported to the Office of Financial Regulation. The dataset includes columns for GEOID20 and annual counts for 2022 through 2025. Data is published by opendata.maryland.gov and was last updated in January 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of foreclosure risk by mapping NOI counts from the GEOID20 column against census tract boundaries.
• Track annual foreclosure trends by comparing the 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 columns across different census tracts.
• Identify census tracts with elevated or declining foreclosure activity by calculating year-over-year changes in the annual count columns.
• Correlate foreclosure notices with other socioeconomic data using the GEOID20 as a spatial join key.

Strengths

• Data is reported annually for four consecutive years (2022-2025).
• Includes a geographic identifier (GEOID20) for spatial analysis at the census tract level.
• Published by a state government organization (opendata.maryland.gov).

Limitations

• Annual counts for census tracts with fewer than 10 NOIs are suppressed (blank values), limiting granular analysis.
• The data provider notes potential duplicates, address errors, and mismatches, which may affect accuracy and totals.
• Data does not constitute official court records and may differ from other related reports.

Provenance

Source

Maryland Office of Financial Regulation (OFR), via opendata.maryland.gov.

Collection Method

Compiled from third-party filings submitted to the OFR pursuant to applicable law.

Time Range

2022 to 2025.

Freshness

Data was last updated in January 2026.

Geography

State of Maryland, aggregated by census tract.