Hunterdon County, NJ: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Hunterdon County, New Jersey is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 57/100 (moderate). The county spans 26 scored ZIP codes, averaging 24/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 23 up to 28/100.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 5.2% over twelve months (phase confidence 35/100). Under a rising market, specific ZIPs still slip and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

Even appreciating at +5.2% YoY (35/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster which speeds resale of distressed buys. A moderate 57/100 lender headwind points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Hunterdon County are 08525 (28/100), 08560 (28/100), 08876 (28/100), 08853 (27/100), 07979 (25/100), 08530 (25/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 07830, 07865, 07882, 08551, 08559, 08801, 08802, 08804, 08809, 08822 among others.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Hunterdon County run a median household income near $136,670 (above the US norm), median home values around $497,758 (above the national figure), 3.7% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 45.9, 3.9% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 83%. Numbers like these set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 24/100 reading over 26 ZIPs, Hunterdon County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Hunterdon County parcel's owner, APN and address, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Because Hunterdon County, New Jersey is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Hunterdon County against neighboring markets or the rest of New Jersey on equal footing.

The practical read on Hunterdon County, New Jersey is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Hunterdon County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Hunterdon County are 08525 (28/100), 08560 (28/100), 08876 (28/100), 08853 (27/100), 07979 (25/100), 08530 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 07830, 07865, 07882, 08551, 08559, 08801, 08802, 08804 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Hunterdon County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.