Porter County, IN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Porter County, IN, Indiana: 16 ZIP codes scored, Porter County, IN averaging 29/100 (low, Porter, IN), from 25 to 33. Porter County, IN is in its peak phase (Porter, IN confidence 26/100): Porter, IN home prices up 4.3% (Porter, IN) over twelve months. Porter County, IN lender headwind: 35/100.

Highest-scoring Porter County, IN ZIPs: 46307 (33/100), 46403 (33/100), 46342 (32/100), 46341 (31/100), 46301 (29/100), 46302 (29/100). Also scored in Porter County, IN: 46304, 46347, 46368, 46383, 46385, 46393, 46391, 46348, 46360, 46390.

Across Porter County, IN's scored ZIPs: median home value $265,238, household income $82,260, 11.3% vacancy, 11.8% poverty, 82% owner-occupied, median age 44.8.

Porter County, IN insurance distress 64/100 (#803 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Porter, IN; 6 federal disaster declarations in Porter County, IN since 2023 (4 flood); 3 Porter, IN NFIP flood claims, $4K paid; Porter, IN construction distress 44/100.

11 banks with 42 branches lend in Porter County, IN; Porter, IN weighted bank stress 56/100, highest 87/100 in Porter, IN.

Porter County, IN unemployment 3.8% (Porter, IN -0.4 pts, six months); 600 new housing units permitted in Porter County, IN over twelve months, Porter, IN up 7% from 560; Porter, IN home prices +8.4% a year (Porter, IN) over three years.

72,662 housing units in Porter County, IN; 15,506 Porter, IN renter households; 45% of Porter, IN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Porter, IN) half or more.

Porter County, IN ranks #1,931 nationally on the opportunity index (Porter, IN, among all ranked counties); Porter, IN scores 27.9/100 and Porter, IN sits #59 inside Indiana. Porter, IN is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Porter, IN's primary driver is bank institutional, Porter, IN second driver construction; Porter, IN moved up 529 places. 48 short-sale listings across Porter, IN; 113 days on market observed in Porter, IN; 6.1% vacancy over 16 Porter, IN ZIPs.

1.0% of Porter County, IN mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Porter, IN's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.8% (CFPB county sample). Porter, IN's ninety-day rate is up 0.5 points on twelve months earlier; the Porter, IN peak since 2008 was 4.2% in December 2009; Indiana overall reads 1.0%.

Porter County, IN has 7 watched banks; 7 Porter, IN banks sit in an elevated band. Porter, IN footprints: Centier Bank (10 branches, stress 60) in Porter, IN; 1st Source Bank (9 branches, stress 38) in Porter, IN; Horizon Bank (4 branches, stress 48) in Porter, IN.

HUD lists 14 assisted multifamily properties in Porter County, IN with 1,736 units; 230 Porter, IN units are assisted, 2 Porter, IN properties under project-based Section 8.

4,023 of the 72,662 housing units in Porter, IN sit vacant. Porter County, IN permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Porter, IN's one-to-four unit structures added 600 units in Porter County, IN.