Maricopa County, AZ: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Maricopa County, AZ, Arizona: 140 ZIP codes scored, Maricopa County, AZ averaging 34/100 (moderate, Maricopa, AZ), from 23 to 35. Maricopa County, AZ is in its peak phase (Maricopa, AZ confidence 11/100): Maricopa, AZ home prices up 0.3% (Maricopa, AZ) over twelve months. Maricopa County, AZ lender headwind: 60/100.
Highest-scoring Maricopa County, AZ ZIPs: 85120 (35/100), 85003 (34/100), 85004 (34/100), 85006 (34/100), 85007 (34/100), 85008 (34/100). Also scored in Maricopa County, AZ: 85009, 85012, 85013, 85014, 85015, 85016, 85017, 85018, 85019, 85020.
Across Maricopa County, AZ's scored ZIPs: median home value $484,162, household income $89,540, 9.4% vacancy, 11.6% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.
Maricopa County, AZ insurance distress 76/100 (#473 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Maricopa, AZ; 4 federal disaster declarations in Maricopa County, AZ since 2023; 31 Maricopa, AZ NFIP flood claims, $912K paid; Maricopa, AZ construction distress 53/100.
55 banks with 623 branches lend in Maricopa County, AZ; Maricopa, AZ weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 93/100 in Maricopa, AZ.
Maricopa County, AZ unemployment 4.8% (Maricopa, AZ +0.6 pts, six months); 29,326 new housing units permitted in Maricopa County, AZ over twelve months, Maricopa, AZ down 3% from 30,157; Maricopa, AZ home prices +9.0% a year (Maricopa, AZ) over three years.
1,884,334 housing units in Maricopa County, AZ; 593,849 Maricopa, AZ renter households; 49% of Maricopa, AZ renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Maricopa, AZ) half or more.
Maricopa County, AZ ranks #885 nationally on the opportunity index (Maricopa, AZ, among all ranked counties); Maricopa, AZ scores 31.6/100 and Maricopa, AZ sits #5 inside Arizona. Maricopa, AZ is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Maricopa, AZ's primary driver is bank institutional, Maricopa, AZ second driver construction; Maricopa, AZ moved up 499 places. 1,097 short-sale listings across Maricopa, AZ; 89 days on market observed in Maricopa, AZ; 7.5% vacancy over 140 Maricopa, AZ ZIPs.
0.7% of Maricopa County, AZ mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Maricopa, AZ's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.8% (CFPB county sample). Maricopa, AZ's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Maricopa, AZ peak since 2008 was 8.8% in January 2010; Arizona overall reads 0.8%.
Maricopa County, AZ has 11 watched banks; 11 Maricopa, AZ banks sit in an elevated band. Maricopa, AZ footprints: Western Alliance Bank (6 branches, stress 74) in Maricopa, AZ; Southwest Heritage Bank (3 branches, stress 59) in Maricopa, AZ; West Valley National Bank (2 branches, stress 93) in Maricopa, AZ.
HUD lists 155 assisted multifamily properties in Maricopa County, AZ with 16,038 units; 4,484 Maricopa, AZ units are assisted, 34 Maricopa, AZ properties under project-based Section 8.
153,638 of the 1,884,334 housing units in Maricopa, AZ sit vacant. Maricopa County, AZ permitted 12,805 multifamily units in twelve months; Maricopa, AZ's one-to-four unit structures added 16,521 units in Maricopa County, AZ.