Kings County, NY: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Kings County, NY, New York: 40 ZIP codes scored, Kings County, NY averaging 27/100 (low, Kings, NY), from 21 to 27. Kings County, NY is in its peak phase (Kings, NY confidence 36/100): Kings, NY home prices up 4.9% (Kings, NY) over twelve months. Kings County, NY lender headwind: 65/100.
Highest-scoring Kings County, NY ZIPs: 11201 (27/100), 11203 (27/100), 11204 (27/100), 11205 (27/100), 11206 (27/100), 11207 (27/100). Also scored in Kings County, NY: 11208, 11209, 11210, 11211, 11212, 11213, 11214, 11215, 11216, 11217.
Across Kings County, NY's scored ZIPs: median home value $992,503, household income $82,719, 7.3% vacancy, 18.2% poverty, 30% owner-occupied, median age 37.3.
Kings County, NY insurance distress 64/100 (#797 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Kings, NY; 2 federal disaster declarations in Kings County, NY since 2023 (2 flood); 72 Kings, NY NFIP flood claims, $643K paid; Kings, NY construction distress 1/100.
41 banks with 331 branches lend in Kings County, NY; Kings, NY weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 99/100 in Kings, NY.
Kings County, NY unemployment 5.3% (Kings, NY -0.8 pts, six months); 9,021 new housing units permitted in Kings County, NY over twelve months, Kings, NY up 50% from 6,034; Kings, NY home prices +3.6% a year (Kings, NY) over three years.
1,100,772 housing units in Kings County, NY; 709,570 Kings, NY renter households; 49% of Kings, NY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 26% (Kings, NY) half or more.
Kings County, NY ranks #2,474 nationally on the opportunity index (Kings, NY, among all ranked counties); Kings, NY scores 26.0/100 and Kings, NY sits #49 inside New York. Kings, NY is in the weak opportunity phase; Kings, NY's primary driver is bank institutional, Kings, NY second driver vacancy; Kings, NY moved down 138 places. 59 short-sale listings across Kings, NY; 129 days on market observed in Kings, NY; 7.4% vacancy over 40 Kings, NY ZIPs.
1.0% of Kings County, NY mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Kings, NY's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.7% (CFPB county sample). Kings, NY's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Kings, NY peak since 2008 was 7.5% in February 2011; New York overall reads 1.0%.
Kings County, NY has 21 watched banks; 21 Kings, NY banks sit in an elevated band. Kings, NY footprints: Apple Bank (17 branches, stress 89) in Kings, NY; Flagstar Bank National Assn (10 branches, stress 90) in Kings, NY; Dime Commercial Bank (8 branches, stress 66) in Kings, NY.
HUD lists 109 assisted multifamily properties in Kings County, NY with 21,296 units; 11,184 Kings, NY units are assisted, 34 Kings, NY properties under project-based Section 8.
90,845 of the 1,100,772 housing units in Kings, NY sit vacant. Kings County, NY permitted 8,929 multifamily units in twelve months; Kings, NY's one-to-four unit structures added 92 units in Kings County, NY.