ZIP 01253 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 01253 in Berkshire County, Massachusetts carries a composite property-distress score of 19/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (47/100), structural risk (40/100), mortgage stress (5/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (5/100). Latent structural risk is 40/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.8% year on year, and 53% higher over three years, at 57/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

About 42% have a four-year degree. The typical home is worth about $390,900 (3.1× income, relatively affordable). The ZIP holds roughly 648 housing units. Rent burden reaches 54% of tenant households. Median household income is $108,068, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Population is roughly 903 with a median age of 52. The poverty rate is 2.7% — low. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. On demographic stress specifically, 01253 scores 30/100. The vacancy rate is 39.0% — elevated.

On the whole, 01253 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 01253 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The number is not local guesswork: 01253's 19/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 01253, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 19/100 figure for 01253 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Practically, 01253 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.