ZIP 01886 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 01886 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100). On the structural side it scores 67/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in 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.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.3% year on year, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 31/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The poverty rate is 2.4% — low. About 24,584 people live here, median age 43. At $181,523, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 23/100. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 73% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 88% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $748,500 (3.8× income, relatively affordable). The vacancy rate is 4.0%. The ZIP holds roughly 9,241 housing units.

Net-net, 01886 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.