ZIP 01602 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Worcester County, Massachusetts · Distress market
ZIP code 01602 in Worcester County, Massachusetts carries a composite property-distress score of 29/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Its standout signals are structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (45/100), construction/permit lag (44/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 63/100 structural and 5/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100).
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year, and 19% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
On demographic stress specifically, 01602 scores 31/100. Vacancy runs 5.1%. About 47% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. Median household income is $94,351, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Population is roughly 25,791 with a median age of 40. The poverty rate is 13.1%. 60% of housing is owner-occupied. Home values center near $417,300, an affordability ratio of 4.0×. There are about 10,815 housing units across 01602.
Net-net, 01602 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 01602 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Big metro or rural, 01602 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. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 01602 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Each component behind 01602 - 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, 01602 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 01602
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
Snapshot: 01602 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 01602, the same set carried on every parcel.
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