ZIP 01462 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 01462 (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. The latent-versus-live split is 73/100 structural and 5/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

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.

A median home runs $463,800 here, or 4.0 times local income. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. Households earn a median $109,884 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. 11,822 residents call 01462 home, typically aged 42. The vacancy rate is 3.7%. About 45% have a four-year degree. Roughly 5.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The ZIP holds roughly 4,884 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 01462 scores 27/100. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented.

Overall, 01462 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.