ZIP 01840 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 01840 (Essex County, Massachusetts) at a low 27/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (61/100), construction/permit lag (57/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). The latent-versus-live split is 61/100 structural and 0/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.3% over the trailing year (phase confidence 31/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 2% owner-occupied to 98% rented. Roughly 27.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 14% have a four-year degree. 7,092 residents call 01840 home, typically aged 37. Households earn a median $34,630 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 3,661 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 01840 scores 45/100. The vacancy rate is 3.4%.

Taken together, 01840 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.