ZIP 01523 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Worcester County, Massachusetts · Distress market
ZIP 01523's composite property-distress score is 29/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Worcester County, Massachusetts. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (45/100), construction/permit lag (44/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (18/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). The split runs 63/100 structural to 5/100 active on the ground.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year, and 23% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
There are about 2,975 housing units across 01523. Rent burden reaches 68% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 3.0% — low. Around 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $130,444, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. 8,470 residents call 01523 home, typically aged 43. Vacancy runs 0.9%. On demographic stress specifically, 01523 scores 29/100. Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%. The typical home is worth about $519,100 (3.6× income, relatively affordable).
On balance 01523 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 01523 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Big metro or rural, 01523 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. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 01523, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
Each component behind 01523 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 29/100 roll-up. For an operator, 01523 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 01523
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 01523 Stress Report snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 01523, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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