Ventura County, CA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Ventura County, CA, California: 34 ZIP codes scored, Ventura County, CA averaging 32/100 (moderate, Ventura, CA), from 26 to 33. Ventura County, CA is in its contraction phase (Ventura, CA confidence 47/100): Ventura, CA home prices down 2.3% (Ventura, CA) over twelve months, 3.1% under their peak. Ventura County, CA lender headwind: 55/100.
Highest-scoring Ventura County, CA ZIPs: 91320 (33/100), 91360 (33/100), 91377 (33/100), 93001 (33/100), 93003 (33/100), 93004 (33/100). Also scored in Ventura County, CA: 93010, 93012, 93015, 93021, 93022, 93023, 93030, 93033, 93035, 93036.
Across Ventura County, CA's scored ZIPs: median home value $872,406, household income $110,241, 7.8% vacancy, 9.1% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.
Ventura County, CA insurance distress 86/100 (#202 in the US); FEMA hazard 87/100 for Ventura, CA; 9 federal disaster declarations in Ventura County, CA since 2023; 27 Ventura, CA NFIP flood claims, $568K paid; Ventura, CA construction distress 45/100.
21 banks with 118 branches lend in Ventura County, CA; Ventura, CA weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 87/100 in Ventura, CA.
Ventura County, CA unemployment 5.0% (Ventura, CA +0.2 pts, six months); 1,545 new housing units permitted in Ventura County, CA over twelve months, Ventura, CA up 2% from 1,519; Ventura, CA home prices +8.4% a year (Ventura, CA) over three years.
295,878 housing units in Ventura County, CA; 99,657 Ventura, CA renter households; 56% of Ventura, CA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Ventura, CA) half or more.
Ventura County, CA ranks #1,789 nationally on the opportunity index (Ventura, CA, among all ranked counties); Ventura, CA scores 28.5/100 and Ventura, CA sits #23 inside California. Ventura, CA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Ventura, CA's primary driver is bank institutional, Ventura, CA second driver construction; Ventura, CA moved down 219 places. 28 short-sale listings across Ventura, CA; 86 days on market observed in Ventura, CA; 5.4% vacancy over 34 Ventura, CA ZIPs.
0.4% of Ventura County, CA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Ventura, CA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.1% (CFPB county sample). Ventura, CA's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Ventura, CA peak since 2008 was 6.0% in April 2010; California overall reads 0.5%.
Ventura County, CA has 10 watched banks; 10 Ventura, CA banks sit in an elevated band. Ventura, CA footprints: Mechanics Bank (7 branches, stress 59) in Ventura, CA; Montecito Bank&Trust (4 branches, stress 81) in Ventura, CA; Bank Of The Sierra (4 branches, stress 57) in Ventura, CA.
HUD lists 14 assisted multifamily properties in Ventura County, CA with 614 units; 278 Ventura, CA units are assisted, 4 Ventura, CA properties under project-based Section 8.
15,518 of the 295,878 housing units in Ventura, CA sit vacant. Ventura County, CA permitted 988 multifamily units in twelve months; Ventura, CA's one-to-four unit structures added 557 units in Ventura County, CA.