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

Middlesex County, MA, Massachusetts: 83 ZIP codes scored, Middlesex County, MA averaging 24/100 (low, Middlesex, MA), from 22 to 28. Middlesex County, MA is in its peak phase (Middlesex, MA confidence 23/100): Middlesex, MA home prices up 2.9% (Middlesex, MA) over twelve months. Middlesex County, MA lender headwind: 53/100.

Highest-scoring Middlesex County, MA ZIPs: 01434 (28/100), 01431 (24/100), 01432 (24/100), 01450 (24/100), 01460 (24/100), 01463 (24/100). Also scored in Middlesex County, MA: 01464, 01469, 01474, 01701, 01702, 01718, 01719, 01720, 01721, 01730.

Across Middlesex County, MA's scored ZIPs: median home value $833,313, household income $135,301, 4.2% vacancy, 6.4% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 40.8.

Middlesex County, MA insurance distress 26/100 (#1,870 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Middlesex, MA; 33 Middlesex, MA NFIP flood claims, $157K paid; Middlesex, MA construction distress 35/100.

42 banks with 442 branches lend in Middlesex County, MA; Middlesex, MA weighted bank stress 65/100, highest 94/100 in Middlesex, MA.

Middlesex County, MA unemployment 4.0% (Middlesex, MA -0.5 pts, six months); 2,876 new housing units permitted in Middlesex County, MA over twelve months, Middlesex, MA up 15% from 2,492; Middlesex, MA home prices +8.8% a year (Middlesex, MA) over three years.

664,267 housing units in Middlesex County, MA; 242,075 Middlesex, MA renter households; 45% of Middlesex, MA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Middlesex, MA) half or more.

Middlesex County, MA ranks #3,163 nationally on the opportunity index (Middlesex, MA, among all ranked counties); Middlesex, MA scores 21.1/100 and Middlesex, MA sits #11 inside Massachusetts. Middlesex, MA is in the weak opportunity phase; Middlesex, MA's primary driver is bank institutional, Middlesex, MA second driver construction; Middlesex, MA moved down 100 places. 172 short-sale listings across Middlesex, MA; 99 days on market observed in Middlesex, MA; 4.4% vacancy over 83 Middlesex, MA ZIPs.

0.4% of Middlesex County, MA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Middlesex, MA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.8% (CFPB county sample). Middlesex, MA's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Middlesex, MA peak since 2008 was 3.0% in February 2010; Massachusetts overall reads 0.6%.

Middlesex County, MA has 32 watched banks; 32 Middlesex, MA banks sit in an elevated band. Middlesex, MA footprints: Eastern Bank (33 branches, stress 57) in Middlesex, MA; Rockland Trust Co (29 branches, stress 43) in Middlesex, MA; Middlesex Savings Bank (22 branches, stress 65) in Middlesex, MA.

HUD lists 156 assisted multifamily properties in Middlesex County, MA with 13,298 units; 5,941 Middlesex, MA units are assisted, 52 Middlesex, MA properties under project-based Section 8.

30,052 of the 664,267 housing units in Middlesex, MA sit vacant. Middlesex County, MA permitted 1,949 multifamily units in twelve months; Middlesex, MA's one-to-four unit structures added 927 units in Middlesex County, MA.