Morris County, NJ: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Morris County, NJ, New Jersey: 58 ZIP codes scored, Morris County, NJ averaging 27/100 (low, Morris, NJ), from 21 to 28. Morris County, NJ is in its expansion phase (Morris, NJ confidence 35/100): Morris, NJ home prices up 5.2% (Morris, NJ) over twelve months. Morris County, NJ lender headwind: 52/100.
Highest-scoring Morris County, NJ ZIPs: 07920 (28/100), 07931 (28/100), 07934 (28/100), 07005 (27/100), 07034 (27/100), 07035 (27/100). Also scored in Morris County, NJ: 07045, 07046, 07054, 07058, 07082, 07405, 07438, 07440, 07444, 07457.
Across Morris County, NJ's scored ZIPs: median home value $634,344, household income $144,088, 3.2% vacancy, 5.8% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 43.6.
Morris County, NJ insurance distress 28/100 (#1,649 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Morris, NJ; 73 Morris, NJ NFIP flood claims, $791K paid; Morris, NJ construction distress 67/100.
28 banks with 155 branches lend in Morris County, NJ; Morris, NJ weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 93/100 in Morris, NJ.
Morris County, NJ unemployment 3.9% (Morris, NJ -0.5 pts, six months); 1,536 new housing units permitted in Morris County, NJ over twelve months, Morris, NJ down 17% from 1,852; Morris, NJ home prices +10.2% a year (Morris, NJ) over three years.
199,506 housing units in Morris County, NJ; 50,069 Morris, NJ renter households; 42% of Morris, NJ renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Morris, NJ) half or more.
Morris County, NJ ranks #3,128 nationally on the opportunity index (Morris, NJ, among all ranked counties); Morris, NJ scores 21.8/100 and Morris, NJ sits #17 inside New Jersey. Morris, NJ is in the weak opportunity phase; Morris, NJ's primary driver is construction, Morris, NJ second driver bank institutional; Morris, NJ moved down 216 places. 21 short-sale listings across Morris, NJ; 73 days on market observed in Morris, NJ; 3.2% vacancy over 58 Morris, NJ ZIPs.
0.6% of Morris County, NJ mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Morris, NJ's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.2% (CFPB county sample). Morris, NJ's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Morris, NJ peak since 2008 was 3.8% in August 2012; New Jersey overall reads 0.9%.
Morris County, NJ has 15 watched banks; 15 Morris, NJ banks sit in an elevated band. Morris, NJ footprints: Provident Bank (16 branches, stress 54) in Morris, NJ; Valley National Bank (14 branches, stress 60) in Morris, NJ; Peapack Private Bank&Trust (6 branches, stress 78) in Morris, NJ.
HUD lists 20 assisted multifamily properties in Morris County, NJ with 450 units; 325 Morris, NJ units are assisted, 4 Morris, NJ properties under project-based Section 8.
6,261 of the 199,506 housing units in Morris, NJ sit vacant. Morris County, NJ permitted 705 multifamily units in twelve months; Morris, NJ's one-to-four unit structures added 831 units in Morris County, NJ.