ZIP 02542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Barnstable County, Massachusetts · High Vacancy market
Composite property distress in 02542 (Barnstable County, Massachusetts) lands at 28/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 65/100 while live distress already moving reads 0/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100)).
The neutral-phase market in 02542 posted values that rose 3.7% over the year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
The poverty rate is 0.8% — low. Educational attainment sits at 36% bachelor's-or-above. 854 residents call 02542 home, typically aged 26. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 32.6% — elevated. There are about 380 housing units across 02542. At $55,000, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 58/100. 0% of housing is owner-occupied.
Taken together, 02542 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 02542 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
The 02542 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 28/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 02542 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Where the record is thin for 02542, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
02542's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 02542 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 02542’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 02542 Stress Report snapshot
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