ZIP 05251 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 05251 in Bennington County, Vermont carries a composite property-distress score of 24/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (53/100), institutional ownership (40/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100). On the structural side it scores 53/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (65/100).

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.4% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years (phase confidence 29/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Rent burden reaches 56% of tenant households. 15.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 1,395 with a median age of 48. The ZIP holds roughly 1,177 housing units. At $102,216, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. 95% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $567,900 (4.5× income). On demographic stress specifically, 05251 scores 34/100. Around 70% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 51.9% — elevated.

Taken together, 05251 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 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: 05251 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. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 05251, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 24/100 figure for 05251 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. In workflow terms, 05251 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.