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

Essex County, MA, Massachusetts: 46 ZIP codes scored, Essex County, MA averaging 27/100 (low, Essex, MA), from 24 to 27. Essex County, MA is in its peak phase (Essex, MA confidence 23/100): Essex, MA home prices up 2.9% (Essex, MA) over twelve months. Essex County, MA lender headwind: 47/100.

Highest-scoring Essex County, MA ZIPs: 01810 (27/100), 01830 (27/100), 01832 (27/100), 01833 (27/100), 01834 (27/100), 01835 (27/100). Also scored in Essex County, MA: 01840, 01841, 01843, 01844, 01845, 01860, 01901, 01902, 01904, 01905.

Across Essex County, MA's scored ZIPs: median home value $669,033, household income $107,407, 5.8% vacancy, 9.7% poverty, 71% owner-occupied, median age 44.6.

Essex County, MA insurance distress 31/100 (#1,576 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Essex, MA; 174 Essex, MA NFIP flood claims, $4.8M paid; Essex, MA construction distress 60/100.

32 banks with 216 branches lend in Essex County, MA; Essex, MA weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 93/100 in Essex, MA.

Essex County, MA unemployment 4.6% (Essex, MA -0.5 pts, six months); 1,063 new housing units permitted in Essex County, MA over twelve months, Essex, MA down 10% from 1,176; Essex, MA home prices +8.6% a year (Essex, MA) over three years.

329,776 housing units in Essex County, MA; 112,326 Essex, MA renter households; 53% of Essex, MA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Essex, MA) half or more.

Essex County, MA ranks #3,118 nationally on the opportunity index (Essex, MA, among all ranked counties); Essex, MA scores 21.9/100 and Essex, MA sits #9 inside Massachusetts. Essex, MA is in the weak opportunity phase; Essex, MA's primary driver is construction, Essex, MA second driver bank institutional; Essex, MA moved down 193 places. 19 short-sale listings across Essex, MA; 116 days on market observed in Essex, MA; 4.8% vacancy over 46 Essex, MA ZIPs.

0.5% of Essex County, MA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Essex, MA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.2% (CFPB county sample). Essex, MA's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Essex, MA peak since 2008 was 4.4% in January 2010; Massachusetts overall reads 0.6%.

Essex County, MA has 21 watched banks; 21 Essex, MA banks sit in an elevated band. Essex, MA footprints: Salem Five Cents Sb (20 branches, stress 66) in Essex, MA; Eastern Bank (20 branches, stress 57) in Essex, MA; Institution Svg Newburyport& (13 branches, stress 61) in Essex, MA.

HUD lists 89 assisted multifamily properties in Essex County, MA with 8,501 units; 5,290 Essex, MA units are assisted, 36 Essex, MA properties under project-based Section 8.

16,629 of the 329,776 housing units in Essex, MA sit vacant. Essex County, MA permitted 608 multifamily units in twelve months; Essex, MA's one-to-four unit structures added 455 units in Essex County, MA.