Delaware County Foreclosure & Distress Reports (2026)
One report per county — 3 in Delaware — each scored 0-100 from public foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress records and refreshed monthly. The live county pages sit under the Delaware distress hub; insurance pressure is on the Delaware home-insurance page.
3 Delaware county reports sit in this archive; Delaware opportunity phases run 2 weak, 1 watchlist; Delaware ninety-day delinquency 1.1%; 26 banks chartered in Delaware; 4,948 HUD-assisted Delaware units.
Delaware counties to open first by opportunity rank: Sussex (#843, watchlist); Kent (#2,474, weak); New Castle (#3,057, weak) in Delaware.
Delaware insurance bands across counties: 3 low in Delaware; Delaware NFIP claims 65 in three years.
Delaware counties in the peak phase (2): New Castle, Sussex.
Delaware counties in the neutral phase (1): Kent.
Delaware permitted 6,477 housing units in twelve months; 62,165 Delaware units sit vacant of 464,203.
Delaware counties highest on the national opportunity index: Sussex #843 (31.8/100, watchlist); Kent #2,474 (26.0/100, weak); New Castle #3,057 (22.5/100, weak) in Delaware.
How the Delaware county reports are scored: each Delaware report reads its county's foreclosure filings, Delaware tax-lien and tax-deed records, FHA mortgage delinquency in Delaware (ninety-day rate 1.1%, December 2025), the FDIC stress of Delaware lenders (26 chartered in Delaware) and FEMA/NFIP pressure on Delaware (65 NFIP claims, three years), then scores every Delaware ZIP 0-100.
Sussex County leads Delaware on the opportunity index at #843 nationally with 24 scored ZIPs. Every Delaware report is rebuilt monthly from public records; a Delaware county whose data lapses keeps its Delaware page and says so.