ZIP 02421 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Middlesex County, Massachusetts · High Value market
In Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ZIP 02421 scores 24 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). The latent-versus-live split is 53/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Leading the profile are 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).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. 6.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100. The typical home is worth about $1,205,700 (5.4× income). The ZIP holds roughly 6,903 housing units. The tenure split is 76% owner-occupied to 24% rented. Around 85% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 2.1%. Households earn a median $212,843 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 17,798 people live here, median age 48.
On balance, 02421 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. Parcel-level detail for 02421 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
No ZIP is too small to score: 02421 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 24/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 02421, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
02421'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. In workflow terms, 02421 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
ZIP 02421 distress signals, scored
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 02421 by the numbers
02421 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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