Denver County, CO: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Denver County, CO, Colorado: 41 ZIP codes scored, Denver County, CO averaging 21/100 (low, Denver, CO), from 18 to 33. Denver County, CO is in its contraction phase (Denver, CO confidence 17/100): Denver, CO home prices down 1.0% (Denver, CO) over twelve months, 1.2% under their peak. Denver County, CO lender headwind: 57/100.
Highest-scoring Denver County, CO ZIPs: 80214 (33/100), 80226 (33/100), 80232 (33/100), 80227 (29/100), 80012 (27/100), 80110 (27/100). Also scored in Denver County, CO: 80123, 80014, 80235, 80231, 80247, 80212, 80221, 80246, 80202, 80203.
Across Denver County, CO's scored ZIPs: median home value $613,719, household income $90,971, 6.0% vacancy, 10.5% poverty, 50% owner-occupied, median age 36.0.
Denver County, CO insurance distress 21/100 (#2,199 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Denver, CO; 6 Denver, CO NFIP flood claims, $4K paid; Denver, CO construction distress 2/100.
45 banks with 163 branches lend in Denver County, CO; Denver, CO weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 89/100 in Denver, CO.
Denver County, CO unemployment 4.7% (Denver, CO +0.1 pts, six months); 6,418 new housing units permitted in Denver County, CO over twelve months, Denver, CO up 83% from 3,516; Denver, CO home prices +5.6% a year (Denver, CO) over three years.
359,581 housing units in Denver County, CO; 167,670 Denver, CO renter households; 46% of Denver, CO renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Denver, CO) half or more.
Denver County, CO ranks #3,112 nationally on the opportunity index (Denver, CO, among all ranked counties); Denver, CO scores 22.0/100 and Denver, CO sits #61 inside Colorado. Denver, CO is in the weak opportunity phase; Denver, CO's primary driver is bank institutional, Denver, CO second driver vacancy; Denver, CO moved up 27 places. 316 short-sale listings across Denver, CO; 89 days on market observed in Denver, CO; 6.1% vacancy over 41 Denver, CO ZIPs.
0.6% of Denver County, CO mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Denver, CO's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.0% (CFPB county sample). Denver, CO's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Denver, CO peak since 2008 was 3.9% in January 2010; Colorado overall reads 0.7%.
Denver County, CO has 11 watched banks; 11 Denver, CO banks sit in an elevated band. Denver, CO footprints: First Western Trust Bank (3 branches, stress 75) in Denver, CO; Alpine Bank (3 branches, stress 62) in Denver, CO; Anb Bank (2 branches, stress 83) in Denver, CO.
HUD lists 72 assisted multifamily properties in Denver County, CO with 5,907 units; 1,697 Denver, CO units are assisted, 16 Denver, CO properties under project-based Section 8.
24,153 of the 359,581 housing units in Denver, CO sit vacant. Denver County, CO permitted 5,516 multifamily units in twelve months; Denver, CO's one-to-four unit structures added 902 units in Denver County, CO.
Denver County ZIPs ranked by distress
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