ZIP 05906 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Essex County, Vermont's ZIP 05906 registers 17/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 37/100 against active distress of 8/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (71/100), institutional ownership (47/100), structural risk (37/100). By contrast, structural risk (37/100) and mortgage stress (25/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (88/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.5% year on year, at 44/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Vacancy runs 26.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. There are about 775 housing units across 05906. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. 86% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $168,800 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 23.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 1,335 people live here, median age 49. At $54,423, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 05906 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.