Kent County, RI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Kent County, Rhode Island, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 16/100 (contained). There are 9 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 23/100). The county's ZIP scores run from 22 up to 27/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 4.4% over twelve months, at 31/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +4.4% YoY and 31/100 confidence, selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A steady 16/100 bank reading points the search to owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Kent County are 02831 (27/100), 02816 (22/100), 02817 (22/100), 02818 (22/100), 02827 (22/100), 02886 (22/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 02888, 02889, 02893 among others.

By the numbers, Kent County's scored ZIPs show household income averaging about $94,913, above the national median, 4.2% of units sitting vacant, 6.2% of households below the poverty line, home values averaging roughly $418,267, above the US, residents with a median age around 43.5, 79% owner-occupancy. Taken together, they set up who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 23/100 over 9 ZIPs, Kent County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Kent County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Whether Kent County, Rhode Island carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Kent County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Used properly, Kent County, Rhode Island's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Kent County as a whole. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Kent County data is thin.

Drilling in, Kent County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 02831 (27/100), 02816 (22/100), 02817 (22/100), 02818 (22/100), 02827 (22/100), 02886 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 02888, 02889, 02893 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Kent County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.