Hunterdon County, NJ: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Hunterdon County, NJ, New Jersey: 26 ZIP codes scored, Hunterdon County, NJ averaging 27/100 (low, Hunterdon, NJ), from 24 to 28. Hunterdon County, NJ is in its expansion phase (Hunterdon, NJ confidence 35/100): Hunterdon, NJ home prices up 5.2% (Hunterdon, NJ) over twelve months. Hunterdon County, NJ lender headwind: 57/100.
Highest-scoring Hunterdon County, NJ ZIPs: 08525 (28/100), 08560 (28/100), 08853 (28/100), 08876 (28/100), 07979 (27/100), 08530 (27/100). Also scored in Hunterdon County, NJ: 08551, 08559, 08801, 08809, 08822, 08825, 08826, 08829, 08833, 08848.
Across Hunterdon County, NJ's scored ZIPs: median home value $497,758, household income $136,670, 3.7% vacancy, 3.9% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 45.9.
Hunterdon County, NJ insurance distress 26/100 (#1,871 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Hunterdon, NJ; 15 Hunterdon, NJ NFIP flood claims, $147K paid; Hunterdon, NJ construction distress 85/100.
14 banks with 30 branches lend in Hunterdon County, NJ; Hunterdon, NJ weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 78/100 in Hunterdon, NJ.
Hunterdon County, NJ unemployment 3.7% (Hunterdon, NJ -0.7 pts, six months); 330 new housing units permitted in Hunterdon County, NJ over twelve months, Hunterdon, NJ down 37% from 524; Hunterdon, NJ home prices +10.0% a year (Hunterdon, NJ) over three years.
52,115 housing units in Hunterdon County, NJ; 7,652 Hunterdon, NJ renter households; 41% of Hunterdon, NJ renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Hunterdon, NJ) half or more.
Hunterdon County, NJ ranks #2,955 nationally on the opportunity index (Hunterdon, NJ, among all ranked counties); Hunterdon, NJ scores 23.5/100 and Hunterdon, NJ sits #12 inside New Jersey. Hunterdon, NJ is in the weak opportunity phase; Hunterdon, NJ's primary driver is construction, Hunterdon, NJ second driver bank institutional; Hunterdon, NJ moved up 4 places. 13 short-sale listings across Hunterdon, NJ; 47 days on market observed in Hunterdon, NJ; 3.1% vacancy over 26 Hunterdon, NJ ZIPs.
0.7% of Hunterdon County, NJ mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Hunterdon, NJ's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.1% (CFPB county sample). Hunterdon, NJ's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Hunterdon, NJ peak since 2008 was 3.2% in January 2012; New Jersey overall reads 0.9%.
Hunterdon County, NJ has 6 watched banks; 6 Hunterdon, NJ banks sit in an elevated band. Hunterdon, NJ footprints: Peapack Private Bank&Trust (3 branches, stress 78) in Hunterdon, NJ; Unity Bank (3 branches, stress 46) in Hunterdon, NJ; Somerset Regal Bank (2 branches, stress 66) in Hunterdon, NJ.
HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Hunterdon County, NJ with 17 units; 16 Hunterdon, NJ units are assisted, 1 Hunterdon, NJ properties under project-based Section 8.
1,255 of the 52,115 housing units in Hunterdon, NJ sit vacant. Hunterdon County, NJ permitted 195 multifamily units in twelve months; Hunterdon, NJ's one-to-four unit structures added 135 units in Hunterdon County, NJ.