ZIP 02420 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 02420 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 67 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (91/100), structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (18/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.3% year on year, and 21% higher over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $1,200,300 (4.9× 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. The poverty rate is 2.4% — low. At $233,068, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 02420 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.