ZIP 02215 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Suffolk County, Massachusetts · High Vacancy market
ZIP 02215's composite property-distress score is 24/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Structural exposure scores 54 and live distress 3 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (54/100), construction/permit lag (36/100), institutional ownership (20/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100).
The peak-phase market in 02215 posted values that rose 2.9% over the year (phase confidence 23/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
About 24,054 people live here, median age 22. The ZIP holds roughly 9,334 housing units. Roughly 28.1% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. 9% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 85% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 12.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 02215 scores 55/100. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. Home values center near $750,000, an affordability ratio of 10.4× — stretched. Households earn a median $65,827 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.
On the whole, 02215 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 02215's 24/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 02215 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
02215's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 02215 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 02215
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
ZIP 02215 Stress Report snapshot
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