San Mateo County, CA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

San Mateo County, California is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Coverage runs to 31 ZIPs across San Mateo County, a low 27/100 average. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 56 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. The county's ZIP scores run from 20 up to 27/100.

Currently peak, San Mateo County saw prices rise 0.4% year over year, at 12/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +0.4% YoY (12/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. A moderate 56/100 lender headwind points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Highest scores land in 94002 (27/100), 94005 (27/100), 94010 (27/100), 94014 (27/100), 94015 (27/100), 94018 (27/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Coverage extends to 94019, 94020, 94021, 94025, 94027, 94030, 94037, 94038, 94044, 94060 among others.

Underneath the scores, San Mateo County's tracked footprint report typical home values near $1,565,621, an owner-occupied share of 65%, vacancy near 8.7%, residents with a median age around 43.2, incomes around $162,556, a 7.5% poverty rate. Read together, they set up how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

At 27/100 composite over 31 ZIPs, San Mateo County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every San Mateo County parcel: owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Whether San Mateo County, California carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so San Mateo County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For anyone buying in San Mateo County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 27/100. The San Mateo County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

The ZIP breakdown for San Mateo County leads with 94002 (27/100), 94005 (27/100), 94010 (27/100), 94014 (27/100), 94015 (27/100), 94018 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 94019, 94020, 94021, 94025, 94027, 94030, 94037, 94038 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under San Mateo County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.