ZIP 01520 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 01520 (Worcester County, Massachusetts) at a moderate 33/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 73/100 against active distress of 5/100. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (76/100), structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (49/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (18/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.0% year on year, and 19% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $478,300 (3.0× income, relatively affordable). Rent burden reaches 28% of tenant households. About 16,864 people live here, median age 41. Around 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 0.0%. There are about 6,008 housing units across 01520. 85% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 21/100. At $147,582, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 3.6% — low.

Net-net, 01520 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.