Middlesex County, NJ: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Middlesex County, NJ, New Jersey: 44 ZIP codes scored, Middlesex County, NJ averaging 29/100 (low, Middlesex, NJ), from 24 to 29. Middlesex County, NJ is in its expansion phase (Middlesex, NJ confidence 35/100): Middlesex, NJ home prices up 5.2% (Middlesex, NJ) over twelve months. Middlesex County, NJ lender headwind: 47/100.
Highest-scoring Middlesex County, NJ ZIPs: 07001 (29/100), 07008 (29/100), 07064 (29/100), 07067 (29/100), 07077 (29/100), 07080 (29/100). Also scored in Middlesex County, NJ: 07095, 08512, 08536, 08540, 08810, 08816, 08817, 08820, 08824, 08828.
Across Middlesex County, NJ's scored ZIPs: median home value $462,941, household income $113,232, 3.2% vacancy, 7.6% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 40.3.
Middlesex County, NJ insurance distress 32/100 (#1,506 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Middlesex, NJ; 184 Middlesex, NJ NFIP flood claims, $8.2M paid; Middlesex, NJ construction distress 75/100.
41 banks with 215 branches lend in Middlesex County, NJ; Middlesex, NJ weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 90/100 in Middlesex, NJ.
Middlesex County, NJ unemployment 4.8% (Middlesex, NJ -0.3 pts, six months); 1,454 new housing units permitted in Middlesex County, NJ over twelve months, Middlesex, NJ down 25% from 1,951; Middlesex, NJ home prices +11.6% a year (Middlesex, NJ) over three years.
317,979 housing units in Middlesex County, NJ; 111,647 Middlesex, NJ renter households; 44% of Middlesex, NJ renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Middlesex, NJ) half or more.
Middlesex County, NJ ranks #3,026 nationally on the opportunity index (Middlesex, NJ, among all ranked counties); Middlesex, NJ scores 22.9/100 and Middlesex, NJ sits #15 inside New Jersey. Middlesex, NJ is in the weak opportunity phase; Middlesex, NJ's primary driver is construction, Middlesex, NJ second driver bank institutional; Middlesex, NJ moved down 171 places. 65 short-sale listings across Middlesex, NJ; 80 days on market observed in Middlesex, NJ; 3.5% vacancy over 44 Middlesex, NJ ZIPs.
0.7% of Middlesex County, NJ mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Middlesex, NJ's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.6% (CFPB county sample). Middlesex, NJ's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Middlesex, NJ peak since 2008 was 5.9% in January 2012; New Jersey overall reads 0.9%.
Middlesex County, NJ has 19 watched banks; 19 Middlesex, NJ banks sit in an elevated band. Middlesex, NJ footprints: Provident Bank (23 branches, stress 54) in Middlesex, NJ; Amboy Bank (13 branches, stress 34) in Middlesex, NJ; Columbia Bank (9 branches, stress 82) in Middlesex, NJ.
HUD lists 26 assisted multifamily properties in Middlesex County, NJ with 1,875 units; 938 Middlesex, NJ units are assisted, 5 Middlesex, NJ properties under project-based Section 8.
10,197 of the 317,979 housing units in Middlesex, NJ sit vacant. Middlesex County, NJ permitted 651 multifamily units in twelve months; Middlesex, NJ's one-to-four unit structures added 803 units in Middlesex County, NJ.