ZIP 01821 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Middlesex County, Massachusetts · Distress market
Middlesex County, Massachusetts's ZIP 01821 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (56/100), construction/permit lag (47/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 56/100 structural and 2/100 already moving.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.9% year on year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 30,203 people live here, median age 45. At $142,564, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $615,100 (4.1× income). There are about 11,430 housing units across 01821. The vacancy rate is 1.3%. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. 81% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 4.1% — low. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100.
Net-net, 01821 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 01821 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 01821 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 25/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 01821 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
01821's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 01821 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 01821
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.
Snapshot: 01821 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 01821, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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