ZIP 08901 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 08901 (Middlesex County, New Jersey) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 67/100 against active distress of 2/100. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (76/100), structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (21/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (21/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100)).

The expansion-phase market in 08901 posted values that rose 6.0% over the year, and 35% higher over three years, at 43/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 56,766 with a median age of 24. 22% of housing is owner-occupied. At $60,248, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 47/100. The typical home is worth about $353,800 (5.3× income). There are about 16,854 housing units across 08901. Rent burden reaches 49% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 31.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Vacancy runs 6.8%. Around 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

On the whole, 08901 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.