Delaware County, PA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Delaware County, PA, Pennsylvania: 45 ZIP codes scored, Delaware County, PA averaging 27/100 (low, Delaware, PA), from 20 to 28. Delaware County, PA is in its peak phase (Delaware, PA confidence 28/100): Delaware, PA home prices up 4.2% (Delaware, PA) over twelve months. Delaware County, PA lender headwind: 43/100.

Highest-scoring Delaware County, PA ZIPs: 19008 (28/100), 19013 (28/100), 19014 (28/100), 19015 (28/100), 19017 (28/100), 19018 (28/100). Also scored in Delaware County, PA: 19022, 19023, 19026, 19029, 19032, 19033, 19036, 19043, 19050, 19052.

Across Delaware County, PA's scored ZIPs: median home value $421,468, household income $107,909, 4.6% vacancy, 8.7% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 40.3.

Delaware County, PA insurance distress 27/100 (#1,711 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Delaware, PA; 23 Delaware, PA NFIP flood claims, $243K paid; Delaware, PA construction distress 80/100.

24 banks with 118 branches lend in Delaware County, PA; Delaware, PA weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 94/100 in Delaware, PA.

Delaware County, PA unemployment 4.0% (Delaware, PA -0.4 pts, six months); 181 new housing units permitted in Delaware County, PA over twelve months, Delaware, PA down 34% from 275; Delaware, PA home prices +9.7% a year (Delaware, PA) over three years.

229,715 housing units in Delaware County, PA; 65,772 Delaware, PA renter households; 52% of Delaware, PA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Delaware, PA) half or more.

Delaware County, PA ranks #2,139 nationally on the opportunity index (Delaware, PA, among all ranked counties); Delaware, PA scores 27.2/100 and Delaware, PA sits #41 inside Pennsylvania. Delaware, PA is in the weak opportunity phase; Delaware, PA's primary driver is construction, Delaware, PA second driver bank institutional; Delaware, PA moved up 342 places. 100 short-sale listings across Delaware, PA; 88 days on market observed in Delaware, PA; 5.4% vacancy over 45 Delaware, PA ZIPs.

1.3% of Delaware County, PA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Delaware, PA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.1% (CFPB county sample). Delaware, PA's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Delaware, PA peak since 2008 was 4.3% in December 2012; Pennsylvania overall reads 1.0%.

Delaware County, PA has 11 watched banks; 11 Delaware, PA banks sit in an elevated band. Delaware, PA footprints: Sharon Bank (4 branches, stress 79) in Delaware, PA; County Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 94) in Delaware, PA; Iron Workers Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 94) in Delaware, PA.

HUD lists 11 assisted multifamily properties in Delaware County, PA with 979 units; 496 Delaware, PA units are assisted, 4 Delaware, PA properties under project-based Section 8.

12,769 of the 229,715 housing units in Delaware, PA sit vacant. Delaware County, PA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Delaware, PA's one-to-four unit structures added 181 units in Delaware County, PA.