ZIP 02740 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 02740 (Bristol County, Massachusetts) at a low 25/100 for overall property distress. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (44/100), mortgage stress (19/100). mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100)). Structural exposure scores 54 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.4% over the trailing year, and 21% higher over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The ZIP holds roughly 20,654 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $54,563 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The typical home is worth about $345,800 (5.6× income). The poverty rate is 19.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 42/100. Population is roughly 46,336 with a median age of 37. The vacancy rate is 4.6%. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 38% owner-occupied to 62% rented.

On balance 02740 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 02740 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 02740's 25/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 02740 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 25/100 figure for 02740 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 02740 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.