Baker County, OR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Baker County, OR, Oregon: 13 ZIP codes scored, Baker County, OR averaging 20/100 (low, Baker, OR), from 14 to 21. Baker County, OR is in its peak phase (Baker, OR confidence 9/100): Baker, OR home prices up 1.2% (Baker, OR) over twelve months. Baker County, OR lender headwind: 49/100.

Highest-scoring Baker County, OR ZIPs: 97814 (21/100), 97819 (21/100), 97833 (21/100), 97834 (21/100), 97837 (21/100), 97840 (21/100). Also scored in Baker County, OR: 97870, 97884, 97905, 97907, 97867, 97877, 97869.

Across Baker County, OR's scored ZIPs: median home value $235,980, household income $59,684, 36.0% vacancy, 16.0% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 53.1.

Baker County, OR insurance distress 35/100 (#1,480 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Baker, OR; 4 federal disaster declarations in Baker County, OR since 2023; Baker, OR construction distress 57/100.

3 banks with 4 branches lend in Baker County, OR; Baker, OR weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 67/100 in Baker, OR.

Baker County, OR unemployment 5.0% (Baker, OR -1.4 pts, six months); 41 new housing units permitted in Baker County, OR over twelve months, Baker, OR down 9% from 45; Baker, OR home prices +11.8% a year (Baker, OR) over three years.

8,725 housing units in Baker County, OR; 1,977 Baker, OR renter households; 36% of Baker, OR renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 26% (Baker, OR) half or more.

Baker County, OR ranks #2,251 nationally on the opportunity index (Baker, OR, among all ranked counties); Baker, OR scores 26.9/100 and Baker, OR sits #21 inside Oregon. Baker, OR is in the weak opportunity phase; Baker, OR's primary driver is vacancy, Baker, OR second driver construction; Baker, OR moved down 1,278 places. 1 short-sale listings across Baker, OR; 2 days on market observed in Baker, OR; 13.2% vacancy over 13 Baker, OR ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Baker County, OR. The state reading for Baker, OR: 0.6% ninety-plus days late; Baker, OR's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.2% (Baker, OR, December 2025 data).

Baker County, OR has 1 watched bank; 1 Baker, OR bank sits in an elevated band. Baker, OR footprints: Columbia Bank (1 branch, stress 58) in Baker, OR.

1,370 of the 8,725 housing units in Baker, OR sit vacant. Baker County, OR permitted 4 multifamily units in twelve months; Baker, OR's one-to-four unit structures added 37 units in Baker County, OR.