ZIP 01562 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 01562 (Worcester County, Massachusetts) lands at 33/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural exposure scores 73 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (76/100), structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (49/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (18/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.0% year on year, and 20% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

65% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 11.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 11,961 people live here, median age 49. There are about 5,695 housing units across 01562. The typical home is worth about $382,000 (4.7× income). Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 7.7%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. Around 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $79,086, median income runs near typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 01562 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.