Nevada County, CA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Nevada County, CA, California: 12 ZIP codes scored, Nevada County, CA averaging 19/100 (low, Nevada, CA), from 17 to 22. Nevada County, CA is in its peak phase (Nevada, CA confidence 12/100): Nevada, CA home prices up 0.4% (Nevada, CA) over twelve months. Nevada County, CA lender headwind: 40/100.

Highest-scoring Nevada County, CA ZIPs: 95602 (22/100), 95728 (22/100), 95977 (22/100), 96161 (20/100), 95945 (17/100), 95946 (17/100). Also scored in Nevada County, CA: 95949, 95959, 95960, 95975, 95986, 96111.

Across Nevada County, CA's scored ZIPs: median home value $629,692, household income $89,326, 23.0% vacancy, 10.8% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 51.5.

Nevada County, CA insurance distress 0/100 (#2,523 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Nevada, CA; Nevada, CA construction distress 41/100.

11 banks with 21 branches lend in Nevada County, CA; Nevada, CA weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 85/100 in Nevada, CA.

Nevada County, CA unemployment 5.0% (Nevada, CA +0.1 pts, six months); 202 new housing units permitted in Nevada County, CA over twelve months, Nevada, CA up 12% from 180; Nevada, CA home prices +3.2% a year (Nevada, CA) over three years.

54,309 housing units in Nevada County, CA; 10,703 Nevada, CA renter households; 53% of Nevada, CA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 30% (Nevada, CA) half or more.

Nevada County, CA ranks #1,375 nationally on the opportunity index (Nevada, CA, among all ranked counties); Nevada, CA scores 29.9/100 and Nevada, CA sits #14 inside California. Nevada, CA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Nevada, CA's primary driver is vacancy, Nevada, CA second driver bank institutional; Nevada, CA moved down 250 places. 17 short-sale listings across Nevada, CA; 93 days on market observed in Nevada, CA; 17.3% vacancy over 12 Nevada, CA ZIPs.

0.3% of Nevada County, CA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Nevada, CA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.9% (CFPB county sample). Nevada, CA's ninety-day rate is down 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Nevada, CA peak since 2008 was 4.6% in July 2010; California overall reads 0.5%.

Nevada County, CA has 5 watched banks; 5 Nevada, CA banks sit in an elevated band. Nevada, CA footprints: Tri Counties Bank (3 branches, stress 49) in Nevada, CA; El Dorado Savings Bank Fsb (2 branches, stress 59) in Nevada, CA; Westamerica Bank (2 branches, stress 52) in Nevada, CA.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Nevada County, CA with 176 units.

11,444 of the 54,309 housing units in Nevada, CA sit vacant. Nevada County, CA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Nevada, CA's one-to-four unit structures added 202 units in Nevada County, CA.