ZIP 01453 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 01453 (Worcester County, Massachusetts) at a moderate 33/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (76/100), structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (49/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). On the structural side it scores 73/100, with 5/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.0% over the trailing year, and 24% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $82,098 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 63% owner-occupied to 37% rented. About 32% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $381,300 here, or 4.2 times local income. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 01453 scores 32/100. The ZIP holds roughly 19,197 housing units. The vacancy rate is 4.0%. Roughly 9.9% live below the poverty line. 43,635 residents call 01453 home, typically aged 42.

Overall, 01453 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.