San Mateo County, CA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
San Mateo County, CA, California: 31 ZIP codes scored, San Mateo County, CA averaging 27/100 (low, San Mateo, CA), from 21 to 27. San Mateo County, CA is in its peak phase (San Mateo, CA confidence 12/100): San Mateo, CA home prices up 0.4% (San Mateo, CA) over twelve months. San Mateo County, CA lender headwind: 56/100.
Highest-scoring San Mateo County, CA ZIPs: 94002 (27/100), 94005 (27/100), 94010 (27/100), 94014 (27/100), 94015 (27/100), 94018 (27/100). Also scored in San Mateo County, CA: 94019, 94020, 94021, 94025, 94027, 94030, 94037, 94038, 94044, 94060.
Across San Mateo County, CA's scored ZIPs: median home value $1,565,621, household income $162,556, 8.7% vacancy, 7.5% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 43.2.
San Mateo County, CA insurance distress 26/100 (#1,847 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for San Mateo, CA; 7 San Mateo, CA NFIP flood claims, $164K paid; San Mateo, CA construction distress 64/100.
30 banks with 143 branches lend in San Mateo County, CA; San Mateo, CA weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 83/100 in San Mateo, CA.
San Mateo County, CA unemployment 4.0% (San Mateo, CA +0.3 pts, six months); 1,600 new housing units permitted in San Mateo County, CA over twelve months, San Mateo, CA down 16% from 1,898; San Mateo, CA home prices +7.1% a year (San Mateo, CA) over three years.
287,184 housing units in San Mateo County, CA; 108,180 San Mateo, CA renter households; 47% of San Mateo, CA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (San Mateo, CA) half or more.
San Mateo County, CA ranks #2,664 nationally on the opportunity index (San Mateo, CA, among all ranked counties); San Mateo, CA scores 25.1/100 and San Mateo, CA sits #39 inside California. San Mateo, CA is in the weak opportunity phase; San Mateo, CA's primary driver is construction, San Mateo, CA second driver bank institutional; San Mateo, CA moved down 703 places. 5 short-sale listings across San Mateo, CA; 92 days on market observed in San Mateo, CA; 7.3% vacancy over 31 San Mateo, CA ZIPs.
0.1% of San Mateo County, CA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; San Mateo, CA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.4% (CFPB county sample). San Mateo, CA's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the San Mateo, CA peak since 2008 was 4.2% in January 2010; California overall reads 0.5%.
San Mateo County, CA has 11 watched banks; 11 San Mateo, CA banks sit in an elevated band. San Mateo, CA footprints: Tri Counties Bank (8 branches, stress 49) in San Mateo, CA; Bank Of The Orient (3 branches, stress 71) in San Mateo, CA; East West Bank (3 branches, stress 56) in San Mateo, CA.
HUD lists 14 assisted multifamily properties in San Mateo County, CA with 808 units; 535 San Mateo, CA units are assisted, 4 San Mateo, CA properties under project-based Section 8.
22,765 of the 287,184 housing units in San Mateo, CA sit vacant. San Mateo County, CA permitted 1,094 multifamily units in twelve months; San Mateo, CA's one-to-four unit structures added 506 units in San Mateo County, CA.