Connecticut Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Connecticut, DLRadar turns foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress records into a distress score for every ZIP. Statewide, counties skew expansion, prices up 5.3% on average. Across the state the phase mix is 6 expansion, 1 peak. 7 counties and 289 ZIPs are tracked statewide, averaging 0/100.

Among the hardest-hit are Western Connecticut County, Naugatuck Valley County, South Central Connecticut County, Greater Bridgeport County, Lower Connecticut River Valley County.

Top ZIP-level distress statewide: 06390 (32/100), 06001 (0/100), 06002 (0/100), 06010 (0/100), 06013 (0/100).

The Connecticut breakdown, county by county:

Capitol County is expansion (up 5.7% on the year, headwind 40/100). Greater Bridgeport County — expansion, values rising 5.0%, lender pressure 51/100. Lower Connecticut River Valley County is expansion (prices up 5.7%, bank stress 43/100). In Naugatuck Valley County, peak: prices up 3.6%, lender pressure 53/100. South Central Connecticut County: expansion, prices up 5.5%, headwind 53/100. Southeastern Connecticut County is in its expansion phase, prices up 6.8%. Western Connecticut County sits in expansion, homes +5.0% YoY, a 64/100 lender reading.

Connecticut mortgages ninety-plus days late: 1.0%; Connecticut thirty-to-eighty-nine days late 2.3% (December 2025); 7 Connecticut counties sit in the CFPB sample; highest Connecticut county readings: South Central Connecticut 1.3%, Capitol 1.0%, Southeastern Connecticut 1.0%, Naugatuck Valley 0.9%, Greater Bridgeport 0.9%.

Connecticut county unemployment averages 4.7% across 7 counties; Connecticut permitted 5,497 housing units in twelve months (3,530 multifamily); 97,584 of 1,444,334 Connecticut housing units are vacant; 459,586 Connecticut renter households, 49.0% spending 30%+ of income on rent.

Connecticut ZIP price-cycle phases: 903 peak, 168 expansion, 1 neutral.