Queens County, NY: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Queens County, NY, New York: 68 ZIP codes scored, Queens County, NY averaging 21/100 (low, Queens, NY), from 21 to 29. Queens County, NY is in its peak phase (Queens, NY confidence 36/100): Queens, NY home prices up 4.9% (Queens, NY) over twelve months. Queens County, NY lender headwind: 62/100.
Highest-scoring Queens County, NY ZIPs: 11040 (29/100), 11001 (27/100), 11004 (21/100), 11005 (21/100), 11101 (21/100), 11102 (21/100). Also scored in Queens County, NY: 11103, 11104, 11105, 11106, 11109, 11354, 11355, 11356, 11357, 11358.
Across Queens County, NY's scored ZIPs: median home value $725,077, household income $87,854, 8.8% vacancy, 12.2% poverty, 53% owner-occupied, median age 41.8.
Queens County, NY insurance distress 30/100 (#1,670 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Queens, NY; 151 Queens, NY NFIP flood claims, $2.3M paid.
52 banks with 345 branches lend in Queens County, NY; Queens, NY weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 99/100 in Queens, NY.
Queens County, NY unemployment 4.7% (Queens, NY -0.7 pts, six months); 6,729 new housing units permitted in Queens County, NY over twelve months, Queens, NY up 85% from 3,630; Queens, NY home prices +5.0% a year (Queens, NY) over three years.
910,206 housing units in Queens County, NY; 456,452 Queens, NY renter households; 50% of Queens, NY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 26% (Queens, NY) half or more.
Queens County, NY ranks #2,726 nationally on the opportunity index (Queens, NY, among all ranked counties); Queens, NY scores 24.8/100 and Queens, NY sits #55 inside New York. Queens, NY is in the weak opportunity phase; Queens, NY's primary driver is bank institutional, Queens, NY second driver vacancy; Queens, NY moved down 18 places. 101 short-sale listings across Queens, NY; 89 days on market observed in Queens, NY; 7.3% vacancy over 68 Queens, NY ZIPs.
0.9% of Queens County, NY mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Queens, NY's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.8% (CFPB county sample). Queens, NY's ninety-day rate is down 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Queens, NY peak since 2008 was 7.4% in February 2011; New York overall reads 1.0%.
Queens County, NY has 23 watched banks; 23 Queens, NY banks sit in an elevated band. Queens, NY footprints: Flagstar Bank National Assn (26 branches, stress 90) in Queens, NY; Ridgewood Savings Bank (11 branches, stress 67) in Queens, NY; Dime Commercial Bank (9 branches, stress 66) in Queens, NY.
HUD lists 36 assisted multifamily properties in Queens County, NY with 7,945 units; 3,311 Queens, NY units are assisted, 9 Queens, NY properties under project-based Section 8.
69,203 of the 910,206 housing units in Queens, NY sit vacant. Queens County, NY permitted 6,379 multifamily units in twelve months; Queens, NY's one-to-four unit structures added 350 units in Queens County, NY.