ZIP 05260 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 05260 (Bennington County, Vermont) at a low 21/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The latent-versus-live split is 46/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (48/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (40/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.8% over the trailing year (phase confidence 44/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

On demographic stress specifically, 05260 scores 20/100. The vacancy rate is 20.4% — elevated. 416 residents call 05260 home, typically aged 61. The ZIP holds roughly 177 housing units. A median home runs $228,300 here, or 3.3 times local income. Roughly 0.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 60% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $62,222 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 100% owner-occupied to 0% rented.

Taken together, 05260 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.