ZIP 02134 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Suffolk County, Massachusetts's ZIP 02134 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (56/100), construction/permit lag (44/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 56 and live distress 3 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.3% over the trailing year, at 31/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

17,637 residents call 02134 home, typically aged 28. A median home runs $657,300 here, or 7.8 times local income. Vacancy runs 8.4%. The tenure split is 13% owner-occupied to 87% rented. About 76% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households. Roughly 23.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 02134 scores 47/100. There are about 8,999 housing units across 02134. Households earn a median $75,317 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Taken together, 02134 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.