ZIP 05261 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 05261 (Bennington County, Vermont) lands at 21/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (48/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (40/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 46 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.8% year on year, at 44/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 2,200 people live here, median age 45. There are about 1,035 housing units across 05261. 92% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $260,000 (3.6× income, relatively affordable). Around 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 9.6%. At $63,724, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 13.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100.

Net-net, 05261 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.