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

Bristol County, MA, Massachusetts: 36 ZIP codes scored, Bristol County, MA averaging 24/100 (low, Bristol, MA), from 24 to 27. Bristol County, MA is in its peak phase (Bristol, MA confidence 31/100): Bristol, MA home prices up 4.4% (Bristol, MA) over twelve months. Bristol County, MA lender headwind: 62/100.

Highest-scoring Bristol County, MA ZIPs: 02861 (27/100), 02048 (24/100), 02356 (24/100), 02357 (24/100), 02375 (24/100), 02702 (24/100). Also scored in Bristol County, MA: 02703, 02715, 02717, 02718, 02719, 02720, 02721, 02723, 02724, 02725.

Across Bristol County, MA's scored ZIPs: median home value $472,051, household income $89,138, 5.5% vacancy, 9.1% poverty, 71% owner-occupied, median age 42.0.

Bristol County, MA insurance distress 60/100 (#900 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Bristol, MA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Bristol County, MA since 2023 (2 flood); 14 Bristol, MA NFIP flood claims, $69K paid.

15 banks with 124 branches lend in Bristol County, MA; Bristol, MA weighted bank stress 69/100, highest 92/100 in Bristol, MA.

Bristol County, MA unemployment 4.9% (Bristol, MA -1.3 pts, six months); 1,310 new housing units permitted in Bristol County, MA over twelve months, Bristol, MA up 74% from 754; Bristol, MA home prices +9.4% a year (Bristol, MA) over three years.

245,025 housing units in Bristol County, MA; 87,659 Bristol, MA renter households; 48% of Bristol, MA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Bristol, MA) half or more.

Bristol County, MA ranks #3,026 nationally on the opportunity index (Bristol, MA, among all ranked counties); Bristol, MA scores 22.9/100 and Bristol, MA sits #7 inside Massachusetts. Bristol, MA is in the weak opportunity phase; Bristol, MA's primary driver is bank institutional, Bristol, MA second driver vacancy; Bristol, MA moved down 10 places. 38 short-sale listings across Bristol, MA; 90 days on market observed in Bristol, MA; 4.7% vacancy over 36 Bristol, MA ZIPs.

1.1% of Bristol County, MA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Bristol, MA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.2% (CFPB county sample). Bristol, MA's ninety-day rate is up 0.4 points on twelve months earlier; the Bristol, MA peak since 2008 was 4.3% in November 2009; Massachusetts overall reads 0.6%.

Bristol County, MA has 9 watched banks; 9 Bristol, MA banks sit in an elevated band. Bristol, MA footprints: Baycoast Bank (18 branches, stress 84) in Bristol, MA; Bristol County Savings Bank (14 branches, stress 63) in Bristol, MA; Fall River Five Cents Sb (12 branches, stress 92) in Bristol, MA.

HUD lists 36 assisted multifamily properties in Bristol County, MA with 4,113 units; 2,253 Bristol, MA units are assisted, 16 Bristol, MA properties under project-based Section 8.

11,200 of the 245,025 housing units in Bristol, MA sit vacant. Bristol County, MA permitted 757 multifamily units in twelve months; Bristol, MA's one-to-four unit structures added 553 units in Bristol County, MA.