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

Suffolk County, MA, Massachusetts: 39 ZIP codes scored, Suffolk County, MA averaging 24/100 (low, Suffolk, MA), from 20 to 24. Suffolk County, MA is in its peak phase (Suffolk, MA confidence 23/100): Suffolk, MA home prices up 2.9% (Suffolk, MA) over twelve months. Suffolk County, MA lender headwind: 40/100.

Highest-scoring Suffolk County, MA ZIPs: 02108 (24/100), 02109 (24/100), 02110 (24/100), 02111 (24/100), 02113 (24/100), 02114 (24/100). Also scored in Suffolk County, MA: 02115, 02116, 02118, 02119, 02120, 02121, 02122, 02124, 02125, 02126.

Across Suffolk County, MA's scored ZIPs: median home value $861,959, household income $97,176, 11.7% vacancy, 15.6% poverty, 37% owner-occupied, median age 33.6.

Suffolk County, MA insurance distress 30/100 (#1,589 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Suffolk, MA; 38 Suffolk, MA NFIP flood claims, $1.2M paid; Suffolk, MA construction distress 39/100.

36 banks with 199 branches lend in Suffolk County, MA; Suffolk, MA weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 94/100 in Suffolk, MA.

Suffolk County, MA unemployment 4.4% (Suffolk, MA -0.3 pts, six months); 2,158 new housing units permitted in Suffolk County, MA over twelve months, Suffolk, MA up 11% from 1,946; Suffolk, MA home prices +6.8% a year (Suffolk, MA) over three years.

357,290 housing units in Suffolk County, MA; 204,246 Suffolk, MA renter households; 49% of Suffolk, MA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Suffolk, MA) half or more.

Suffolk County, MA ranks #3,000 nationally on the opportunity index (Suffolk, MA, among all ranked counties); Suffolk, MA scores 23.1/100 and Suffolk, MA sits #6 inside Massachusetts. Suffolk, MA is in the weak opportunity phase; Suffolk, MA's primary driver is bank institutional, Suffolk, MA second driver vacancy; Suffolk, MA moved down 388 places. 70 short-sale listings across Suffolk, MA; 132 days on market observed in Suffolk, MA; 8.5% vacancy over 39 Suffolk, MA ZIPs.

0.5% of Suffolk County, MA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Suffolk, MA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.2% (CFPB county sample). Suffolk, MA's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Suffolk, MA peak since 2008 was 5.3% in February 2010; Massachusetts overall reads 0.6%.

Suffolk County, MA has 15 watched banks; 15 Suffolk, MA banks sit in an elevated band. Suffolk, MA footprints: Rockland Trust Co (20 branches, stress 43) in Suffolk, MA; Eastern Bank (14 branches, stress 57) in Suffolk, MA; Beacon Bank&Trust (7 branches, stress 64) in Suffolk, MA.

HUD lists 240 assisted multifamily properties in Suffolk County, MA with 23,725 units; 14,634 Suffolk, MA units are assisted, 94 Suffolk, MA properties under project-based Section 8.

30,123 of the 357,290 housing units in Suffolk, MA sit vacant. Suffolk County, MA permitted 1,944 multifamily units in twelve months; Suffolk, MA's one-to-four unit structures added 214 units in Suffolk County, MA.