ZIP 01730 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 01730 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts carries a composite property-distress score of 24/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). The latent-versus-live split is 53/100 structural and 2/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, and 21% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $158,286, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. The typical home is worth about $898,500 (5.5× income). The ZIP holds roughly 5,970 housing units. The poverty rate is 4.1% — low. Educational attainment sits at 69% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. 14,478 residents call 01730 home, typically aged 44. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100. Vacancy runs 1.8%.

Overall 01730 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The 01730 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 24/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 01730 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Where the record is thin for 01730, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

01730'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. For a buyer, 01730 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.