Delaware Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every Delaware county and ZIP carries a DLRadar distress score built from county and parcel records. Delaware leans peak overall, with average prices up 4.2% YoY. The phase distribution across counties: 2 peak, 1 neutral. Coverage spans 3 Delaware counties and 68 ZIPs, a 23/100 mean composite.

The most stressed counties include New Castle County, Sussex County, Kent County — each with a full county distress report.

By ZIP, Delaware distress peaks in 19930 (26/100), 19931 (26/100), 19933 (26/100), 19939 (26/100), 19940 (26/100).

Here is the county-by-county distress and phase picture for Delaware.

Kent County: neutral, up 4.3% on the year, down 4.9% from its high, lender pressure 30/100. New Castle County — peak, up 4.2% on the year, bank stress 35/100. Sussex County sits in peak, appreciation near 4.2%, a 30/100 lender reading.

Delaware opportunity phases: 2 weak, 1 watchlist; Delaware average index 26.8. Best-ranked Delaware counties: Sussex #840 (31.8), vacancy; Kent #2,474 (26.0), bank institutional; New Castle #3,059 (22.5), bank institutional in Delaware.

Delaware mortgages ninety-plus days late: 1.1%; Delaware thirty-to-eighty-nine days late 2.5% (December 2025); 3 Delaware counties sit in the CFPB sample; highest Delaware county readings: Kent 1.8%, New Castle 1.1%, Sussex 0.8%.

Delaware county unemployment averages 5.0% across 3 counties; Delaware permitted 6,477 housing units in twelve months (1,000 multifamily); 62,165 of 464,203 Delaware housing units are vacant; 109,869 Delaware renter households, 47.5% spending 30%+ of income on rent.

Delaware ZIP price-cycle phases: 9,304 peak, 2,234 expansion, 1,133 contraction, 603 neutral, 442 recovery.