Newport County, RI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Newport County, RI, Rhode Island: 8 ZIP codes scored, Newport County, RI averaging 17/100 (low, Newport, RI). Newport County, RI is in its peak phase (Newport, RI confidence 31/100): Newport, RI home prices up 4.4% (Newport, RI) over twelve months. Newport County, RI lender headwind: 39/100.
Highest-scoring Newport County, RI ZIPs: 02835 (17/100), 02837 (17/100), 02840 (17/100), 02841 (17/100), 02842 (17/100), 02871 (17/100). Also scored in Newport County, RI: 02872, 02878.
Across Newport County, RI's scored ZIPs: median home value $648,871, household income $102,884, 24.0% vacancy, 5.3% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 48.3.
Newport County, RI insurance distress 54/100 (#1,028 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Newport, RI; 2 federal disaster declarations in Newport County, RI since 2023; 18 Newport, RI NFIP flood claims, $97K paid; Newport, RI construction distress 11/100.
10 banks with 25 branches lend in Newport County, RI; Newport, RI weighted bank stress 69/100, highest 84/100 in Newport, RI.
Newport County, RI unemployment 2.9% (Newport, RI -2.6 pts, six months); 166 new housing units permitted in Newport County, RI over twelve months, Newport, RI up 40% from 119; Newport, RI home prices +11.8% a year (Newport, RI) over three years.
43,663 housing units in Newport County, RI; 11,781 Newport, RI renter households; 49% of Newport, RI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Newport, RI) half or more.
Newport County, RI ranks #1,528 nationally on the opportunity index (Newport, RI, among all ranked counties); Newport, RI scores 29.3/100 and Newport, RI sits #2 inside Rhode Island. Newport, RI is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Newport, RI's primary driver is vacancy, Newport, RI second driver bank institutional; Newport, RI moved down 285 places. 39 short-sale listings across Newport, RI; 93 days on market observed in Newport, RI; 15.5% vacancy over 8 Newport, RI ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Newport County, RI. The metro area reading for Newport, RI (Providence-Warwick, RI-MA): 0.9% ninety-plus days late; Newport, RI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.3% (Newport, RI, December 2025 data); Rhode Island overall 0.9%.
Newport County, RI has 3 watched banks; 3 Newport, RI banks sit in an elevated band. Newport, RI footprints: Banknewport (6 branches, stress 78) in Newport, RI; Citizens Bank National Assn (4 branches, stress 66) in Newport, RI; Centreville Bank (2 branches, stress 52) in Newport, RI.
HUD lists 23 assisted multifamily properties in Newport County, RI with 1,267 units; 526 Newport, RI units are assisted, 6 Newport, RI properties under project-based Section 8.
6,795 of the 43,663 housing units in Newport, RI sit vacant. Newport County, RI permitted 53 multifamily units in twelve months; Newport, RI's one-to-four unit structures added 113 units in Newport County, RI.