Sussex County, NJ: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Sussex County, NJ, New Jersey: 22 ZIP codes scored, Sussex County, NJ averaging 20/100 (low, Sussex, NJ), from 19 to 27. Sussex County, NJ is in its expansion phase (Sussex, NJ confidence 35/100): Sussex, NJ home prices up 5.2% (Sussex, NJ) over twelve months. Sussex County, NJ lender headwind: 43/100.
Highest-scoring Sussex County, NJ ZIPs: 07849 (27/100), 07421 (25/100), 07825 (24/100), 07460 (21/100), 07821 (20/100), 07416 (19/100). Also scored in Sussex County, NJ: 07418, 07419, 07422, 07439, 07461, 07462, 07822, 07826, 07827, 07843.
Across Sussex County, NJ's scored ZIPs: median home value $375,452, household income $120,409, 8.4% vacancy, 4.5% poverty, 89% owner-occupied, median age 44.9.
Sussex County, NJ insurance distress 5/100 (#2,469 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Sussex, NJ; 1 Sussex, NJ NFIP flood claims; Sussex, NJ construction distress 52/100.
8 banks with 30 branches lend in Sussex County, NJ; Sussex, NJ weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 77/100 in Sussex, NJ.
Sussex County, NJ unemployment 4.3% (Sussex, NJ -1.1 pts, six months); 175 new housing units permitted in Sussex County, NJ over twelve months, Sussex, NJ down 2% from 178; Sussex, NJ home prices +11.4% a year (Sussex, NJ) over three years.
62,865 housing units in Sussex County, NJ; 8,650 Sussex, NJ renter households; 49% of Sussex, NJ renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Sussex, NJ) half or more.
Sussex County, NJ ranks #2,615 nationally on the opportunity index (Sussex, NJ, among all ranked counties); Sussex, NJ scores 25.3/100 and Sussex, NJ sits #10 inside New Jersey. Sussex, NJ is in the weak opportunity phase; Sussex, NJ's primary driver is bank institutional, Sussex, NJ second driver construction; Sussex, NJ moved up 12 places. 17 short-sale listings across Sussex, NJ; 75 days on market observed in Sussex, NJ; 8.5% vacancy over 22 Sussex, NJ ZIPs.
1.3% of Sussex County, NJ mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Sussex, NJ's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.1% (CFPB county sample). Sussex, NJ's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Sussex, NJ peak since 2008 was 6.7% in May 2012; New Jersey overall reads 0.9%.
Sussex County, NJ has 3 watched banks; 3 Sussex, NJ banks sit in an elevated band. Sussex, NJ footprints: Provident Bank (11 branches, stress 54) in Sussex, NJ; Valley National Bank (3 branches, stress 60) in Sussex, NJ; First Hope Bk A Natl Bk Assn (2 branches, stress 77) in Sussex, NJ.
HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Sussex County, NJ with 250 units; 147 Sussex, NJ units are assisted.
5,098 of the 62,865 housing units in Sussex, NJ sit vacant. Sussex County, NJ permitted 59 multifamily units in twelve months; Sussex, NJ's one-to-four unit structures added 116 units in Sussex County, NJ.