ZIP 01612 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Worcester County, Massachusetts's ZIP 01612 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (76/100), structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (49/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 73/100 against active distress of 5/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.0% over the trailing year, and 26% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

4,996 residents call 01612 home, typically aged 41. Vacancy runs 5.4%. Rent burden reaches 13% of tenant households. Roughly 1.6% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. A median home runs $472,300 here, or 3.5 times local income. There are about 1,753 housing units across 01612. The tenure split is 90% owner-occupied to 10% rented. About 54% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 01612 scores 20/100. Households earn a median $133,750 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Overall, 01612 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.