ZIP 02120 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Suffolk County, Massachusetts's ZIP 02120 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (56/100), construction/permit lag (44/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 56/100, with 3/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100).

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

The ZIP holds roughly 5,030 housing units. Around 45% of renters are cost-burdened. At $61,472, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 60/100. 12% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 9.8%. The typical home is worth about $885,900 (15.3× income, severely stretched). The poverty rate is 34.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 15,248 people live here, median age 25.

Net-net, 02120 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.