Kent County, RI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Kent County, RI, Rhode Island: 9 ZIP codes scored, Kent County, RI averaging 23/100 (low, Kent, RI), from 22 to 27. Kent County, RI is in its peak phase (Kent, RI confidence 31/100): Kent, RI home prices up 4.4% (Kent, RI) over twelve months. Kent County, RI lender headwind: 16/100.
Highest-scoring Kent County, RI ZIPs: 02831 (27/100), 02816 (22/100), 02817 (22/100), 02818 (22/100), 02827 (22/100), 02886 (22/100). Also scored in Kent County, RI: 02888, 02889, 02893.
Across Kent County, RI's scored ZIPs: median home value $418,267, household income $94,913, 4.2% vacancy, 6.2% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 43.5.
Kent County, RI insurance distress 66/100 (#754 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Kent, RI; 4 federal disaster declarations in Kent County, RI since 2023; 49 Kent, RI NFIP flood claims, $926K paid.
13 banks with 40 branches lend in Kent County, RI; Kent, RI weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 92/100 in Kent, RI.
Kent County, RI unemployment 3.3% (Kent, RI -1.9 pts, six months); 569 new housing units permitted in Kent County, RI over twelve months, Kent, RI up 64% from 346; Kent, RI home prices +11.4% a year (Kent, RI) over three years.
76,529 housing units in Kent County, RI; 20,260 Kent, RI renter households; 48% of Kent, RI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Kent, RI) half or more.
Kent County, RI ranks #2,685 nationally on the opportunity index (Kent, RI, among all ranked counties); Kent, RI scores 25.0/100 and Kent, RI sits #3 inside Rhode Island. Kent, RI is in the weak opportunity phase; Kent, RI's primary driver is bank institutional, Kent, RI second driver listings discount; Kent, RI moved up 265 places. 79 short-sale listings across Kent, RI; 98 days on market observed in Kent, RI; 4.7% vacancy over 9 Kent, RI ZIPs.
1.2% of Kent County, RI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Kent, RI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.3% (CFPB county sample). Kent, RI's ninety-day rate is up 0.3 points on twelve months earlier; the Kent, RI peak since 2008 was 5.2% in February 2010; Rhode Island overall reads 0.9%.
Kent County, RI has 5 watched banks; 5 Kent, RI banks sit in an elevated band. Kent, RI footprints: Citizens Bank National Assn (7 branches, stress 66) in Kent, RI; Centreville Bank (5 branches, stress 52) in Kent, RI; Washington Tr Co Of Westerly (4 branches, stress 77) in Kent, RI.
HUD lists 21 assisted multifamily properties in Kent County, RI with 1,844 units; 1,569 Kent, RI units are assisted, 11 Kent, RI properties under project-based Section 8.
3,690 of the 76,529 housing units in Kent, RI sit vacant. Kent County, RI permitted 399 multifamily units in twelve months; Kent, RI's one-to-four unit structures added 170 units in Kent County, RI.