ZIP 01609 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Worcester County, Massachusetts · High Poverty market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 01609 (Worcester County, Massachusetts) returns a low composite of 29/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100)). The pressure is most legible in 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.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.5% year on year, and 23% 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 23,184 with a median age of 29. The vacancy rate is 9.8%. There are about 8,910 housing units across 01609. 40% of housing is owner-occupied. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 46/100. The poverty rate is 25.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Households earn a median $61,411 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $444,000 (6.9× income). Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households.
Net-net, 01609 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 01609 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 01609's 29/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Worcester County, Massachusetts or any ZIP coast to coast. Sparse data for 01609 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
Each component behind 01609 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 29/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 01609 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
ZIP 01609 distress signals, scored
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
01609 at a glance
The live 01609 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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Unlock parcel-level detail for ZIP 01609
The full 01609 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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