ZIP 02648 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Barnstable County, Massachusetts, ZIP 02648 scores 28 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 65/100 while live distress already moving reads 4/100.

The neutral-phase market in 02648 posted values that rose 3.7% over the year, and 20% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

A median home runs $593,600 here, or 4.4 times local income. Owners hold 96% of homes, renters 4%. Population is roughly 7,592 with a median age of 50. Around 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 4.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 3,549 housing units. The vacancy rate is 12.8% — elevated. Households earn a median $131,125 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 48% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 02648 scores 30/100.

Taken together, 02648 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 02648 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 02648's 28/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Barnstable County, Massachusetts or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 02648, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

02648'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, 02648 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.