San Diego County, CA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
San Diego County, CA, California: 116 ZIP codes scored, San Diego County, CA averaging 35/100 (moderate, San Diego, CA), from 29 to 37. San Diego County, CA is in its neutral phase (San Diego, CA confidence 11/100): San Diego, CA home prices up 2.0% (San Diego, CA) over twelve months. San Diego County, CA lender headwind: 55/100.
Highest-scoring San Diego County, CA ZIPs: 92562 (37/100), 91901 (35/100), 91902 (35/100), 91905 (35/100), 91906 (35/100), 91910 (35/100). Also scored in San Diego County, CA: 91911, 91913, 91914, 91915, 91916, 91917, 91931, 91932, 91934, 91935.
Across San Diego County, CA's scored ZIPs: median home value $922,765, household income $106,186, 9.3% vacancy, 10.8% poverty, 60% owner-occupied, median age 38.7.
San Diego County, CA insurance distress 71/100 (#609 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for San Diego, CA; 2 federal disaster declarations in San Diego County, CA since 2023 (2 flood); 246 San Diego, CA NFIP flood claims, $22.6M paid; San Diego, CA construction distress 65/100.
42 banks with 432 branches lend in San Diego County, CA; San Diego, CA weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 90/100 in San Diego, CA.
San Diego County, CA unemployment 4.9% (San Diego, CA +0.4 pts, six months); 10,538 new housing units permitted in San Diego County, CA over twelve months, San Diego, CA down 15% from 12,365; San Diego, CA home prices +10.5% a year (San Diego, CA) over three years.
1,250,641 housing units in San Diego County, CA; 527,628 San Diego, CA renter households; 55% of San Diego, CA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (San Diego, CA) half or more.
San Diego County, CA ranks #1,943 nationally on the opportunity index (San Diego, CA, among all ranked counties); San Diego, CA scores 27.9/100 and San Diego, CA sits #25 inside California. San Diego, CA is in the weak opportunity phase; San Diego, CA's primary driver is construction, San Diego, CA second driver bank institutional; San Diego, CA moved down 156 places. 136 short-sale listings across San Diego, CA; 83 days on market observed in San Diego, CA; 6.0% vacancy over 116 San Diego, CA ZIPs.
0.3% of San Diego County, CA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; San Diego, CA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.8% (CFPB county sample). San Diego, CA's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the San Diego, CA peak since 2008 was 6.1% in January 2010; California overall reads 0.5%.
San Diego County, CA has 21 watched banks; 21 San Diego, CA banks sit in an elevated band. San Diego, CA footprints: Banc Of California (13 branches, stress 87) in San Diego, CA; Poppy Bank (5 branches, stress 69) in San Diego, CA; Mechanics Bank (5 branches, stress 59) in San Diego, CA.
HUD lists 81 assisted multifamily properties in San Diego County, CA with 6,173 units; 2,708 San Diego, CA units are assisted, 21 San Diego, CA properties under project-based Section 8.
79,363 of the 1,250,641 housing units in San Diego, CA sit vacant. San Diego County, CA permitted 6,399 multifamily units in twelve months; San Diego, CA's one-to-four unit structures added 4,139 units in San Diego County, CA.