ZIP 01850 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Middlesex County, Massachusetts · Distress market
ZIP code 01850 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts carries a composite property-distress score of 25/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (56/100), construction/permit lag (47/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 56/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Owners hold 50% of homes, renters 50%. A median home runs $390,800 here, or 5.4 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 01850 scores 43/100. There are about 6,221 housing units across 01850. The vacancy rate is 2.5%. At $67,581, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Population is roughly 16,983 with a median age of 35. Roughly 18.2% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 19% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households.
Overall, 01850 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 01850's 25/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 01850, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
01850's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 01850 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 01850’s distress
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
Snapshot: 01850 by the numbers
The live 01850 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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