ZIP 01605 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 01605 (Worcester County, Massachusetts) returns a low composite of 29/100. 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 most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (45/100), construction/permit lag (44/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 01605 posted values that rose 2.5% over the year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 27/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

31,086 residents call 01605 home, typically aged 32. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 46/100. Home values center near $392,100, an affordability ratio of 6.4×. 31% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 6.8%. There are about 12,574 housing units across 01605. Roughly 23.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. Median household income is $54,805, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Net-net, 01605 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 01605 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 01605 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 01605, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

01605's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 01605 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.