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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Worcester County, Massachusetts using verifiable public-record signals alone. There are 87 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 29/100). Bank/credit headwind for the county is 64 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.5% over the past year (phase confidence 27/100). On a market plateau, the opportunity narrows so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Worcester County flat at +2.5% YoY (27/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. Bank stress at 64/100 favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Highest scores land in 01005 (29/100), 01031 (29/100), 01037 (29/100), 01068 (29/100), 01074 (29/100), 01083 (29/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Coverage extends to 01092, 01094, 01331, 01366, 01368, 01420, 01430, 01436, 01438, 01440 among others.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Worcester County show a median household income near $98,807 (above the US norm), 74% of homes owner-occupied, poverty running near 8.7%, typical home values near $437,613, 5.8% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 42.9. Read together, they signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

At 29/100 composite over 87 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Worcester County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

In Worcester County, Massachusetts, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Worcester County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Worcester County are 01005 (29/100), 01031 (29/100), 01037 (29/100), 01068 (29/100), 01074 (29/100), 01083 (29/100). DLRadar also scores 01092, 01094, 01331, 01366, 01368, 01420, 01430, 01436 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Worcester County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.