ZIP 02420 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Middlesex County, Massachusetts · High Value market
In Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ZIP 02420 scores 24 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. The split runs 53/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (17/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, and 21% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
A median home runs $1,200,300 here, or 4.9 times local income. 87% of housing is owner-occupied. About 16,287 people live here, median age 45. Around 85% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 5,851 housing units across 02420. Vacancy runs 3.3%. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. Roughly 2.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. At $233,068, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.
Broadly, 02420 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The 02420 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 24/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 02420 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 02420 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
02420's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 02420 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 02420
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
The 02420 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 02420, the same set carried on every parcel.
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Further distress data across Middlesex County, Massachusetts at ZIP, county and state level.
Open the complete 02420 acquisition file
The full 02420 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
Rules-based scoring — each signal ties to a public dataset · methodology