ZIP 01438 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 01438's composite property-distress score is 29/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Worcester County, Massachusetts. The split runs 63/100 structural to 0/100 active on the ground. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (45/100), construction/permit lag (44/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, at 27/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 100% of renters are cost-burdened. About 192 people live here, median age 56. 82% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 0.0%. Home values center near $261,300. On demographic stress specifically, 01438 scores 54/100. There are about 162 housing units across 01438. The poverty rate is 1.6% — low. About 35% have a four-year degree.

On balance 01438 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 01438 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 01438 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 29/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Worcester County, Massachusetts and the nation. 01438 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 29/100 figure for 01438 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. For an operator, 01438 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.