Salem County, NJ: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Salem County, NJ, New Jersey: 14 ZIP codes scored, Salem County, NJ averaging 23/100 (low, Salem, NJ), from 22 to 25. Salem County, NJ is in its expansion phase (Salem, NJ confidence 35/100): Salem, NJ home prices up 5.2% (Salem, NJ) over twelve months. Salem County, NJ lender headwind: 66/100.
Highest-scoring Salem County, NJ ZIPs: 08085 (25/100), 08344 (25/100), 08343 (24/100), 08001 (22/100), 08023 (22/100), 08038 (22/100). Also scored in Salem County, NJ: 08067, 08069, 08070, 08072, 08079, 08098, 08302, 08318.
Across Salem County, NJ's scored ZIPs: median home value $257,523, household income $84,946, 9.0% vacancy, 8.5% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 40.2.
Salem County, NJ insurance distress 25/100 (#1,947 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Salem, NJ; 13 Salem, NJ NFIP flood claims, $103K paid; Salem, NJ construction distress 53/100.
6 banks with 21 branches lend in Salem County, NJ; Salem, NJ weighted bank stress 68/100, highest 80/100 in Salem, NJ.
Salem County, NJ unemployment 6.1% (Salem, NJ -0.8 pts, six months); 82 new housing units permitted in Salem County, NJ over twelve months, Salem, NJ down 2% from 84; Salem, NJ home prices +12.4% a year (Salem, NJ) over three years.
27,732 housing units in Salem County, NJ; 7,143 Salem, NJ renter households; 53% of Salem, NJ renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Salem, NJ) half or more.
Salem County, NJ ranks #1,254 nationally on the opportunity index (Salem, NJ, among all ranked counties); Salem, NJ scores 30.3/100 and Salem, NJ sits #3 inside New Jersey. Salem, NJ is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Salem, NJ's primary driver is bank institutional, Salem, NJ second driver construction; Salem, NJ moved up 242 places. 35 short-sale listings across Salem, NJ; 99 days on market observed in Salem, NJ; 10.3% vacancy over 14 Salem, NJ ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Salem County, NJ. The metro area reading for Salem, NJ (Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD): 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Salem, NJ's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.6% (Salem, NJ, December 2025 data); New Jersey overall 0.9%.
Salem County, NJ has 4 watched banks; 4 Salem, NJ banks sit in an elevated band. Salem, NJ footprints: Pennsville National Bank (5 branches, stress 61) in Salem, NJ; Franklin Bank (4 branches, stress 80) in Salem, NJ; First National Bank Of Elmer (4 branches, stress 76) in Salem, NJ.
HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Salem County, NJ with 376 units; 305 Salem, NJ units are assisted, 2 Salem, NJ properties under project-based Section 8.
2,886 of the 27,732 housing units in Salem, NJ sit vacant. Salem County, NJ permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Salem, NJ's one-to-four unit structures added 82 units in Salem County, NJ.