Butler County, PA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Butler County, PA, Pennsylvania: 37 ZIP codes scored, Butler County, PA averaging 23/100 (low, Butler, PA), from 17 to 25. Butler County, PA is in its peak phase (Butler, PA confidence 27/100): Butler, PA home prices up 2.7% (Butler, PA) over twelve months. Butler County, PA lender headwind: 47/100.
Highest-scoring Butler County, PA ZIPs: 15044 (25/100), 15086 (25/100), 16001 (24/100), 16002 (24/100), 16020 (24/100), 16022 (24/100). Also scored in Butler County, PA: 16023, 16024, 16025, 16027, 16029, 16030, 16033, 16034, 16035, 16037.
Across Butler County, PA's scored ZIPs: median home value $237,059, household income $92,916, 9.5% vacancy, 9.1% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 44.7.
Butler County, PA insurance distress 31/100 (#1,582 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Butler, PA; 44 Butler, PA NFIP flood claims, $1.5M paid; Butler, PA construction distress 54/100.
19 banks with 64 branches lend in Butler County, PA; Butler, PA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 87/100 in Butler, PA.
Butler County, PA unemployment 3.5% (Butler, PA -0.8 pts, six months); 1,020 new housing units permitted in Butler County, PA over twelve months, Butler, PA down 4% from 1,064; Butler, PA home prices +7.8% a year (Butler, PA) over three years.
87,382 housing units in Butler County, PA; 18,958 Butler, PA renter households; 38% of Butler, PA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Butler, PA) half or more.
Butler County, PA ranks #2,393 nationally on the opportunity index (Butler, PA, among all ranked counties); Butler, PA scores 26.3/100 and Butler, PA sits #46 inside Pennsylvania. Butler, PA is in the weak opportunity phase; Butler, PA's primary driver is bank institutional, Butler, PA second driver construction; Butler, PA moved up 110 places. 7 short-sale listings across Butler, PA; 49 days on market observed in Butler, PA; 7.1% vacancy over 37 Butler, PA ZIPs.
0.3% of Butler County, PA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Butler, PA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.1% (CFPB county sample). Butler, PA's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Butler, PA peak since 2008 was 3.0% in June 2012; Pennsylvania overall reads 1.0%.
Butler County, PA has 10 watched banks; 10 Butler, PA banks sit in an elevated band. Butler, PA footprints: Nextier Bank National Assn (13 branches, stress 61) in Butler, PA; First Nb Of Pennsylvania (7 branches, stress 55) in Butler, PA; First Commonwealth Bank (5 branches, stress 54) in Butler, PA.
HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Butler County, PA with 263 units; 209 Butler, PA units are assisted, 2 Butler, PA properties under project-based Section 8.
6,558 of the 87,382 housing units in Butler, PA sit vacant. Butler County, PA permitted 76 multifamily units in twelve months; Butler, PA's one-to-four unit structures added 944 units in Butler County, PA.