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

Sussex County, DE, Delaware: 24 ZIP codes scored, Sussex County, DE averaging 25/100 (low, Sussex, DE), from 19 to 26. Sussex County, DE is in its peak phase (Sussex, DE confidence 22/100): Sussex, DE home prices up 4.2% (Sussex, DE) over twelve months. Sussex County, DE lender headwind: 30/100.

Highest-scoring Sussex County, DE ZIPs: 19930 (26/100), 19931 (26/100), 19933 (26/100), 19939 (26/100), 19940 (26/100), 19941 (26/100). Also scored in Sussex County, DE: 19944, 19945, 19947, 19951, 19956, 19958, 19960, 19966, 19967, 19968.

Across Sussex County, DE's scored ZIPs: median home value $420,696, household income $76,682, 24.3% vacancy, 10.8% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 50.8.

Sussex County, DE insurance distress 25/100 (#1,886 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Sussex, DE; 3 federal disaster declarations in Sussex County, DE since 2023; 34 Sussex, DE NFIP flood claims, $118K paid; Sussex, DE construction distress 65/100.

20 banks with 72 branches lend in Sussex County, DE; Sussex, DE weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 88/100 in Sussex, DE.

Sussex County, DE unemployment 4.5% (Sussex, DE -1.2 pts, six months); 3,621 new housing units permitted in Sussex County, DE over twelve months, Sussex, DE down 15% from 4,245; Sussex, DE home prices +10.0% a year (Sussex, DE) over three years.

151,799 housing units in Sussex County, DE; 19,334 Sussex, DE renter households; 48% of Sussex, DE renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Sussex, DE) half or more.

Sussex County, DE ranks #833 nationally on the opportunity index (Sussex, DE, among all ranked counties); Sussex, DE scores 31.8/100 and Sussex, DE sits #1 inside Delaware. Sussex, DE is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Sussex, DE's primary driver is vacancy, Sussex, DE second driver construction; Sussex, DE moved up 307 places. 204 short-sale listings across Sussex, DE; 72 days on market observed in Sussex, DE; 21.9% vacancy over 24 Sussex, DE ZIPs.

0.8% of Sussex County, DE mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Sussex, DE's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.6% (CFPB county sample). Sussex, DE's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Sussex, DE peak since 2008 was 3.4% in March 2010; Delaware overall reads 1.1%.

Sussex County, DE has 7 watched banks; 7 Sussex, DE banks sit in an elevated band. Sussex, DE footprints: Pnc Bank National Assn (8 branches, stress 63) in Sussex, DE; County Bank (7 branches, stress 24) in Sussex, DE; Wilmington Svg Fund Society (6 branches, stress 52) in Sussex, DE.

HUD lists 14 assisted multifamily properties in Sussex County, DE with 467 units; 222 Sussex, DE units are assisted, 2 Sussex, DE properties under project-based Section 8.

45,358 of the 151,799 housing units in Sussex, DE sit vacant. Sussex County, DE permitted 296 multifamily units in twelve months; Sussex, DE's one-to-four unit structures added 3,325 units in Sussex County, DE.