ZIP 01742 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 01742 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) lands at 29/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (91/100), structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (18/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 67 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.3% year on year, and 20% higher over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $1,218,100 (5.4× income). The poverty rate is 2.5% — low. About 18,337 people live here, median age 45. There are about 7,059 housing units across 01742. Vacancy runs 7.0%. Around 79% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. At $211,435, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100.

Net-net, 01742 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.