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

Norfolk County, Massachusetts is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county spans 41 scored ZIP codes, averaging 20/100 composite distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 24/100 at the top down to 20/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 48 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.9% over twelve months, at 23/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

With Norfolk County flat at +2.9% YoY (23/100 confidence), the wins are surgical and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 48/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Highest scores land in 02215 (24/100), 02467 (23/100), 02019 (20/100), 02021 (20/100), 02025 (20/100), 02026 (20/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 02030, 02032, 02035, 02038, 02052, 02053, 02054, 02056, 02062, 02067.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Norfolk County show 6% of households below the poverty line, a 5.2% vacancy rate, median home values around $792,838 (above the national figure), residents with a median age around 40.2, 74% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $136,446 (above the US norm). These fundamentals set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

With a low 20/100 reading over 41 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Norfolk County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

Used properly, Norfolk County, Massachusetts's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Norfolk County as a whole. What supports the Norfolk County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Norfolk County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 02215 (24/100), 02467 (23/100), 02019 (20/100), 02021 (20/100), 02025 (20/100), 02026 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 02030, 02032, 02035, 02038, 02052, 02053, 02054, 02056 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 Norfolk 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.