New Castle County, DE: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

New Castle County, DE, Delaware: 32 ZIP codes scored, New Castle County, DE averaging 20/100 (low, New Castle, DE), from 20 to 26. New Castle County, DE is in its peak phase (New Castle, DE confidence 22/100): New Castle, DE home prices up 4.2% (New Castle, DE) over twelve months. New Castle County, DE lender headwind: 35/100.

Highest-scoring New Castle County, DE ZIPs: 21912 (26/100), 19938 (22/100), 19977 (22/100), 19701 (20/100), 19702 (20/100), 19703 (20/100). Also scored in New Castle County, DE: 19706, 19707, 19709, 19710, 19711, 19713, 19716, 19717, 19720, 19730.

Across New Castle County, DE's scored ZIPs: median home value $375,611, household income $93,467, 5.7% vacancy, 8.6% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 43.0.

New Castle County, DE insurance distress 28/100 (#1,679 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for New Castle, DE; 23 New Castle, DE NFIP flood claims, $373K paid.

27 banks with 149 branches lend in New Castle County, DE; New Castle, DE weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 82/100 in New Castle, DE.

New Castle County, DE unemployment 4.9% (New Castle, DE -0.4 pts, six months); 1,536 new housing units permitted in New Castle County, DE over twelve months, New Castle, DE up 86% from 825; New Castle, DE home prices +9.8% a year (New Castle, DE) over three years.

236,079 housing units in New Castle County, DE; 70,201 New Castle, DE renter households; 44% of New Castle, DE renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (New Castle, DE) half or more.

New Castle County, DE ranks #3,057 nationally on the opportunity index (New Castle, DE, among all ranked counties); New Castle, DE scores 22.5/100 and New Castle, DE sits #3 inside Delaware. New Castle, DE is in the weak opportunity phase; New Castle, DE's primary driver is bank institutional, New Castle, DE second driver listings discount; New Castle, DE moved up 142 places. 215 short-sale listings across New Castle, DE; 67 days on market observed in New Castle, DE; 4.8% vacancy over 32 New Castle, DE ZIPs.

1.1% of New Castle County, DE mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; New Castle, DE's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.5% (CFPB county sample). New Castle, DE's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the New Castle, DE peak since 2008 was 4.5% in December 2012; Delaware overall reads 1.1%.

New Castle County, DE has 14 watched banks; 14 New Castle, DE banks sit in an elevated band. New Castle, DE footprints: Pnc Bank National Assn (23 branches, stress 63) in New Castle, DE; Wilmington Svg Fund Society (19 branches, stress 52) in New Castle, DE; Td Bank National Assn (10 branches, stress 62) in New Castle, DE.

HUD lists 44 assisted multifamily properties in New Castle County, DE with 4,092 units; 1,735 New Castle, DE units are assisted, 12 New Castle, DE properties under project-based Section 8.

11,906 of the 236,079 housing units in New Castle, DE sit vacant. New Castle County, DE permitted 379 multifamily units in twelve months; New Castle, DE's one-to-four unit structures added 1,157 units in New Castle County, DE.