Kauai County, HI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Kauai County, HI, Hawaii: 16 ZIP codes scored, Kauai County, HI averaging 36/100 (moderate, Kauai, HI). Kauai County, HI is in its expansion phase (Kauai, HI confidence 61/100): Kauai, HI home prices up 7.1% (Kauai, HI) over twelve months. Kauai County, HI lender headwind: 85/100.

Highest-scoring Kauai County, HI ZIPs: 96703 (36/100), 96705 (36/100), 96714 (36/100), 96716 (36/100), 96722 (36/100), 96741 (36/100). Also scored in Kauai County, HI: 96746, 96747, 96751, 96752, 96754, 96756, 96765, 96766, 96769, 96796.

Across Kauai County, HI's scored ZIPs: median home value $908,854, household income $94,825, 21.9% vacancy, 8.5% poverty, 55% owner-occupied, median age 42.0.

Kauai County, HI insurance distress 95/100 (#40 in the US); FEMA hazard 96/100 for Kauai, HI; 9 federal disaster declarations in Kauai County, HI since 2023 (3 hurricane, 3 flood); 76 Kauai, HI NFIP flood claims, $3.3M paid; Kauai, HI construction distress 64/100.

6 banks with 14 branches lend in Kauai County, HI; Kauai, HI weighted bank stress 69/100, highest 79/100 in Kauai, HI.

Kauai County, HI unemployment 2.5% (Kauai, HI +0.2 pts, six months); 119 new housing units permitted in Kauai County, HI over twelve months, Kauai, HI down 14% from 139; Kauai, HI home prices +11.2% a year (Kauai, HI) over three years.

30,471 housing units in Kauai County, HI; 7,677 Kauai, HI renter households; 44% of Kauai, HI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Kauai, HI) half or more.

Kauai County, HI ranks #289 nationally on the opportunity index (Kauai, HI, among all ranked counties); Kauai, HI scores 34.8/100 and Kauai, HI sits #3 inside Hawaii. Kauai, HI is in the overheated opportunity phase; Kauai, HI's primary driver is vacancy, Kauai, HI second driver construction; Kauai, HI moved down 199 places. 5 short-sale listings across Kauai, HI; 74 days on market observed in Kauai, HI; 17.9% vacancy over 16 Kauai, HI ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Kauai County, HI. The state reading for Kauai, HI: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Kauai, HI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.0% (Kauai, HI, December 2025 data).

Kauai County, HI has 5 watched banks; 5 Kauai, HI banks sit in an elevated band. Kauai, HI footprints: First Hawaiian Bank (5 branches, stress 59) in Kauai, HI; Bank Of Hawaii (4 branches, stress 79) in Kauai, HI; American Sb Na (2 branches, stress 74) in Kauai, HI.

HUD lists 4 assisted multifamily properties in Kauai County, HI with 87 units; 81 Kauai, HI units are assisted, 2 Kauai, HI properties under project-based Section 8.

6,839 of the 30,471 housing units in Kauai, HI sit vacant. Kauai County, HI permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Kauai, HI's one-to-four unit structures added 119 units in Kauai County, HI.