ZIP 02139 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Middlesex County, Massachusetts's ZIP 02139 registers 24/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). Latent structural risk is 53/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.9% year on year, and 1% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Median household income is $124,648, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The tenure split is 32% owner-occupied to 68% rented. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. Around 78% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 5.1%. On demographic stress specifically, 02139 scores 43/100. The ZIP holds roughly 17,034 housing units. The typical home is worth about $1,087,500 (8.6× income, severely stretched). 13.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 39,609 with a median age of 30.

Broadly, 02139 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. 02139 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 02139 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 24/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 02139 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. 02139 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 24/100 for 02139 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 02139 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.