ZIP 02891 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Washington County, Rhode Island's ZIP 02891 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), climate & FEMA risk (69/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (66/100), structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (50/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (22/100) register low. Structural risk reads 66/100 against active distress of 7/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.2% year on year, and 27% higher over three years, at 40/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 21,698 people live here, median age 55. The typical home is worth about $470,000 (4.7× income). At $90,435, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. 75% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households. There are about 12,345 housing units across 02891. Around 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 21.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 6.0% — low.

Net-net, 02891 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.