ZIP 01969 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 01969's composite property-distress score is 27/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Essex County, Massachusetts. The pressure is most legible in 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). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). Structural exposure scores 62 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, and 20% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $117,177, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. 82% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 1.4% — low. The ZIP holds roughly 2,447 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 01969 scores 29/100. The vacancy rate is 0.0%. Around 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 6,214 people live here, median age 50. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. Home values center near $667,300, an affordability ratio of 5.4×.

Net-net, 01969 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 01969 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The 01969 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 01969 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Essex County, Massachusetts. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 01969, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

01969'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, 01969 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.