ZIP 01608 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 01608's composite property-distress score is 29/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Worcester County, Massachusetts. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (45/100), construction/permit lag (44/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 63 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale. 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 (phase confidence 27/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The poverty rate is 39.1% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 48% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 13.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 29% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $45,962 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 41/100. The ZIP holds roughly 2,725 housing units. A median home runs $153,600 here, or 2.5 times local income. Owners hold 5% of homes, renters 95%. Population is roughly 4,951 with a median age of 31.

On the whole, 01608 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 01608's 29/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 01608 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

01608's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 01608 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.