ZIP 01843 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Essex County, Massachusetts's ZIP 01843 registers 27/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 62 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). Leading the profile are structural risk (62/100), construction/permit lag (61/100), institutional ownership (20/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100).

The peak-phase market in 01843 posted values that rose 2.9% over the year, and 26% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The ZIP holds roughly 10,740 housing units. Owners hold 36% of homes, renters 64%. Population is roughly 28,444 with a median age of 33. Roughly 14.0% live below the poverty line. The vacancy rate is 3.2%. On demographic stress specifically, 01843 scores 41/100. At $72,163, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Educational attainment sits at 21% bachelor's-or-above. Home values center near $429,100, an affordability ratio of 5.5×. Rent burden reaches 42% of tenant households.

Net-net, 01843 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 01843 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 01843 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 27/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 01843 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Essex County, Massachusetts. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 01843, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

01843's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 01843 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.