Barnstable County, MA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Barnstable County, Massachusetts is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 61/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. ZIP-level distress ranges from 30/100 at the top down to 14/100. There are 48 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 30/100).

The county market is in a neutral phase: home prices rose 3.7% over the past year, a 28/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

Barnstable County's topped-out +3.7% YoY (28/100 confidence) means selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Bank stress at 61/100 is a buyer tailwind: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Barnstable County are 02534 (30/100), 02536 (30/100), 02537 (30/100), 02540 (30/100), 02542 (30/100), 02553 (30/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. The breakdown continues through 02556, 02559, 02561, 02562, 02563, 02601, 02630, 02631, 02632, 02633 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, Barnstable County's scored ZIPs come in at a median household income near $97,834 (above the US norm), 41.4% of units sitting vacant, home values averaging roughly $716,137, above the US, residents with a median age around 56.3, 5.8% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 83%. Read together, they shape where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

All in at 30/100 over 48 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Barnstable County parcel: owner, address and APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Because Barnstable County, Massachusetts is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Barnstable County against neighboring markets or the rest of Massachusetts on equal footing.

Read Barnstable County, Massachusetts as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 30/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. All Barnstable County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

Drilling in, Barnstable County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 02534 (30/100), 02536 (30/100), 02537 (30/100), 02540 (30/100), 02542 (30/100), 02553 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 02556, 02559, 02561, 02562, 02563, 02601, 02630, 02631 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Barnstable County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.