Boulder County, CO: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Boulder County, CO, Colorado: 23 ZIP codes scored, Boulder County, CO averaging 30/100 (moderate, Boulder, CO), from 22 to 31. Boulder County, CO is in its contraction phase (Boulder, CO confidence 41/100): Boulder, CO home prices down 2.1% (Boulder, CO) over twelve months, 2.1% under their peak. Boulder County, CO lender headwind: 52/100.
Highest-scoring Boulder County, CO ZIPs: 80025 (31/100), 80026 (31/100), 80027 (31/100), 80301 (31/100), 80302 (31/100), 80303 (31/100). Also scored in Boulder County, CO: 80304, 80305, 80310, 80455, 80466, 80471, 80481, 80501, 80503, 80510.
Across Boulder County, CO's scored ZIPs: median home value $790,489, household income $112,725, 11.0% vacancy, 13.8% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 39.4.
Boulder County, CO insurance distress 63/100 (#824 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Boulder, CO; 3 federal disaster declarations in Boulder County, CO since 2023; 4 Boulder, CO NFIP flood claims, $19K paid; Boulder, CO construction distress 71/100.
32 banks with 89 branches lend in Boulder County, CO; Boulder, CO weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 95/100 in Boulder, CO.
Boulder County, CO unemployment 4.6% (Boulder, CO +0.3 pts, six months); 1,696 new housing units permitted in Boulder County, CO over twelve months, Boulder, CO down 22% from 2,177; Boulder, CO home prices +7.1% a year (Boulder, CO) over three years.
144,729 housing units in Boulder County, CO; 50,769 Boulder, CO renter households; 57% of Boulder, CO renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 32% (Boulder, CO) half or more.
Boulder County, CO ranks #2,173 nationally on the opportunity index (Boulder, CO, among all ranked counties); Boulder, CO scores 27.1/100 and Boulder, CO sits #29 inside Colorado. Boulder, CO is in the weak opportunity phase; Boulder, CO's primary driver is construction, Boulder, CO second driver bank institutional; Boulder, CO moved down 263 places. 76 short-sale listings across Boulder, CO; 86 days on market observed in Boulder, CO; 4.7% vacancy over 23 Boulder, CO ZIPs.
0.2% of Boulder County, CO mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Boulder, CO's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.4% (CFPB county sample). Boulder, CO's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Boulder, CO peak since 2008 was 1.6% in July 2009; Colorado overall reads 0.7%.
Boulder County, CO has 10 watched banks; 10 Boulder, CO banks sit in an elevated band. Boulder, CO footprints: Flatirons Bank (2 branches, stress 68) in Boulder, CO; Bank Of Colorado (2 branches, stress 63) in Boulder, CO; High Plains Bank (2 branches, stress 46) in Boulder, CO.
HUD lists 18 assisted multifamily properties in Boulder County, CO with 898 units; 211 Boulder, CO units are assisted, 1 Boulder, CO properties under project-based Section 8.
7,721 of the 144,729 housing units in Boulder, CO sit vacant. Boulder County, CO permitted 1,271 multifamily units in twelve months; Boulder, CO's one-to-four unit structures added 425 units in Boulder County, CO.