ZIP 02121 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Suffolk County, Massachusetts · High Poverty market
In Suffolk County, Massachusetts, ZIP 02121 scores 24 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. Structurally it carries 55/100, against 3/100 of stress already in motion. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100)). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (55/100), construction/permit lag (39/100), institutional ownership (20/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, and 29% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
28,298 residents call 02121 home, typically aged 34. There are about 11,429 housing units across 02121. A median home runs $590,200 here, or 14.2 times local income. 23% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 50% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 9.0%. The poverty rate is 26.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Educational attainment sits at 21% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $38,565 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 02121 scores 60/100.
On the whole, 02121 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 02121 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Whether 02121 runs hot or quiet, its 24/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 02121 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Suffolk County, Massachusetts or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 02121 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 24/100 for 02121 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 02121 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 02121
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
02121 at a glance
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