Barnstable County, MA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Barnstable County, MA, Massachusetts: 48 ZIP codes scored, Barnstable County, MA averaging 28/100 (low, Barnstable, MA), from 12 to 28. Barnstable County, MA is in its neutral phase (Barnstable, MA confidence 28/100): Barnstable, MA home prices up 3.7% (Barnstable, MA) over twelve months. Barnstable County, MA lender headwind: 61/100.

Highest-scoring Barnstable County, MA ZIPs: 02534 (28/100), 02536 (28/100), 02537 (28/100), 02540 (28/100), 02542 (28/100), 02553 (28/100). Also scored in Barnstable County, MA: 02556, 02559, 02561, 02562, 02563, 02601, 02630, 02631, 02632, 02633.

Across Barnstable County, MA's scored ZIPs: median home value $716,137, household income $97,834, 41.4% vacancy, 5.8% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 56.3.

Barnstable County, MA insurance distress 30/100 (#1,622 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Barnstable, MA; 1 federal disaster declaration in Barnstable County, MA since 2023; 23 Barnstable, MA NFIP flood claims, $680K paid; Barnstable, MA construction distress 84/100.

11 banks with 86 branches lend in Barnstable County, MA; Barnstable, MA weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 82/100 in Barnstable, MA.

Barnstable County, MA unemployment 3.8% (Barnstable, MA -3.7 pts, six months); 495 new housing units permitted in Barnstable County, MA over twelve months, Barnstable, MA down 34% from 752; Barnstable, MA home prices +12.2% a year (Barnstable, MA) over three years.

166,215 housing units in Barnstable County, MA; 20,027 Barnstable, MA renter households; 53% of Barnstable, MA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Barnstable, MA) half or more.

Barnstable County, MA ranks #904 nationally on the opportunity index (Barnstable, MA, among all ranked counties); Barnstable, MA scores 31.6/100 and Barnstable, MA sits #2 inside Massachusetts. Barnstable, MA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Barnstable, MA's primary driver is vacancy, Barnstable, MA second driver construction; Barnstable, MA moved down 679 places. 9 short-sale listings across Barnstable, MA; 95 days on market observed in Barnstable, MA; 32.6% vacancy over 48 Barnstable, MA ZIPs.

0.3% of Barnstable County, MA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Barnstable, MA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.1% (CFPB county sample). Barnstable, MA's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Barnstable, MA peak since 2008 was 3.5% in December 2009; Massachusetts overall reads 0.6%.

Barnstable County, MA has 6 watched banks; 6 Barnstable, MA banks sit in an elevated band. Barnstable, MA footprints: Cape Cod Five Cents Sb (17 branches, stress 74) in Barnstable, MA; Rockland Trust Co (12 branches, stress 43) in Barnstable, MA; Cape&Coast Bank (11 branches, stress 82) in Barnstable, MA.

HUD lists 19 assisted multifamily properties in Barnstable County, MA with 1,072 units; 497 Barnstable, MA units are assisted, 6 Barnstable, MA properties under project-based Section 8.

60,438 of the 166,215 housing units in Barnstable, MA sit vacant. Barnstable County, MA permitted 140 multifamily units in twelve months; Barnstable, MA's one-to-four unit structures added 355 units in Barnstable County, MA.