ZIP 01542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Worcester County, Massachusetts · Distress market
Worcester County, Massachusetts's ZIP 01542 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (64/100), institutional ownership (46/100), construction/permit lag (44/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 64 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, and 19% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Population is roughly 2,572 with a median age of 47. Home values center near $405,100, an affordability ratio of 3.5× — accessible. There are about 1,088 housing units across 01542. About 28% have a four-year degree. Around 10% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 0.6%. Households earn a median $107,674 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The poverty rate is 1.9% — low. The tenure split is 87% owner-occupied to 13% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 21/100.
On balance 01542 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. There is no property file for 01542 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Big metro or rural, 01542 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 01542, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 29/100 for 01542 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 01542 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 01542’s distress
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
The 01542 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 01542, the same set carried on every parcel.
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