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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Ocean County, New Jersey using verifiable public-record signals alone. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 52/100. DLRadar scores 30 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 36/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 30 to 36 out of 100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.2% over the past year, at 35/100 phase confidence. Even as prices climb, a subset takes on water even as the headline looks strong.

With growth of +5.2% YoY (35/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits where the scoring still flags pressure. A mid-cycle 52/100 lender reading implies both signal sets in play here.

The sharpest Ocean County readings come from 08005 (36/100), 08006 (36/100), 08008 (36/100), 08050 (36/100), 08092 (36/100), 08527 (36/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Further scored ZIPs: 08533, 08701, 08721, 08722, 08723, 08731, 08732, 08733, 08734, 08735.

Profile-wise, Ocean County's scored ZIPs come in at a 6.9% poverty rate, an owner-occupied share of 84%, household income averaging about $88,581, above the national median, vacancy near 24%, home values averaging roughly $539,313, above the US, a median age of 48.6. Taken together, they drive which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Ocean County, New Jersey's 36/100 average over 30 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Ocean County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Whether Ocean County, New Jersey carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Ocean County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Read Ocean County, New Jersey as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 36/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. What supports the Ocean County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Ocean County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 08005 (36/100), 08006 (36/100), 08008 (36/100), 08050 (36/100), 08092 (36/100), 08527 (36/100). DLRadar also scores 08533, 08701, 08721, 08722, 08723, 08731, 08732, 08733 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Ocean County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.