Kent County, DE: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Kent County, DE, Delaware: 19 ZIP codes scored, Kent County, DE averaging 23/100 (low, Kent, DE), from 22 to 25. Kent County, DE is in its neutral phase (Kent, DE confidence 36/100): Kent, DE home prices up 4.3% (Kent, DE) over twelve months, 4.9% under their peak. Kent County, DE lender headwind: 30/100.

Highest-scoring Kent County, DE ZIPs: 19950 (25/100), 19963 (25/100), 19901 (23/100), 19902 (23/100), 19904 (23/100), 19934 (23/100). Also scored in Kent County, DE: 19936, 19943, 19946, 19952, 19953, 19954, 19955, 19962, 19964, 19979.

Across Kent County, DE's scored ZIPs: median home value $300,067, household income $74,445, 6.7% vacancy, 8.6% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 39.1.

Kent County, DE insurance distress 24/100 (#1,988 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Kent, DE; 3 federal disaster declarations in Kent County, DE since 2023; 8 Kent, DE NFIP flood claims, $63K paid; Kent, DE construction distress 47/100.

11 banks with 25 branches lend in Kent County, DE; Kent, DE weighted bank stress 56/100, highest 82/100 in Kent, DE.

Kent County, DE unemployment 5.5% (Kent, DE -0.5 pts, six months); 1,320 new housing units permitted in Kent County, DE over twelve months, Kent, DE up 3% from 1,283; Kent, DE home prices +9.1% a year (Kent, DE) over three years.

76,325 housing units in Kent County, DE; 20,334 Kent, DE renter households; 50% of Kent, DE renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Kent, DE) half or more.

Kent County, DE ranks #2,467 nationally on the opportunity index (Kent, DE, among all ranked counties); Kent, DE scores 26.0/100 and Kent, DE sits #2 inside Delaware. Kent, DE is in the weak opportunity phase; Kent, DE's primary driver is bank institutional, Kent, DE second driver construction; Kent, DE moved up 468 places. 102 short-sale listings across Kent, DE; 65 days on market observed in Kent, DE; 6.8% vacancy over 19 Kent, DE ZIPs.

1.8% of Kent County, DE mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Kent, DE's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 4.1% (CFPB county sample). Kent, DE's ninety-day rate is up 0.6 points on twelve months earlier; the Kent, DE peak since 2008 was 5.8% in February 2014; Delaware overall reads 1.1%.

Kent County, DE has 4 watched banks; 4 Kent, DE banks sit in an elevated band. Kent, DE footprints: Wilmington Svg Fund Society (5 branches, stress 52) in Kent, DE; Pnc Bank National Assn (3 branches, stress 63) in Kent, DE; Artisans Bank (1 branch, stress 82) in Kent, DE.

HUD lists 11 assisted multifamily properties in Kent County, DE with 389 units; 368 Kent, DE units are assisted, 3 Kent, DE properties under project-based Section 8.

4,901 of the 76,325 housing units in Kent, DE sit vacant. Kent County, DE permitted 325 multifamily units in twelve months; Kent, DE's one-to-four unit structures added 995 units in Kent County, DE.