ZIP 05250 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Bennington County, Vermont's ZIP 05250 registers 24/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The latent-versus-live split is 51/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (73/100), structural risk (51/100), institutional ownership (37/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (37/100) and mortgage stress (20/100).

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.4% year on year, and 14% higher over three years (phase confidence 29/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The ZIP holds roughly 1,910 housing units. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. The typical home is worth about $300,700 (3.4× income, relatively affordable). About 49% have a four-year degree. Roughly 8.5% live below the poverty line. Vacancy runs 25.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. About 3,907 people live here, median age 45. Households earn a median $81,536 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 05250 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.

No ZIP is too small to score: 05250 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. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 05250 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

05250'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 an operator, 05250 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.