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

Providence County, Rhode Island is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. DLRadar scores 43 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 28/100. ZIP-level distress ranges from 28/100 at the top down to 22/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 31/100.

In its peak phase, Providence County home prices rose 4.4% across the last year (phase confidence 31/100). With pricing topped out, blanket buying underperforms leaving the wins in individual deals.

With Providence County flat at +4.4% YoY (31/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A steady 31/100 bank reading favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The sharpest Providence County readings come from 02802 (28/100), 02814 (28/100), 02815 (28/100), 02823 (28/100), 02824 (28/100), 02825 (28/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Also scored across the county: 02826, 02828, 02829, 02830, 02838, 02839, 02857, 02858, 02859, 02860.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Providence County report typical home values near $390,047, 9.2% of units sitting vacant, a 11.7% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 41.1, 64% of homes owner-occupied, incomes around $81,355. Taken together, they drive who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Providence County, Rhode Island's 28/100 average over 43 ZIPs says Providence County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Providence County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

No county is too small to score: Providence County, Rhode Island runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Providence County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Rhode Island.

Used properly, Providence 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 Providence County as a whole. Provenance for Providence County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Providence County leads with 02802 (28/100), 02814 (28/100), 02815 (28/100), 02823 (28/100), 02824 (28/100), 02825 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 02826, 02828, 02829, 02830, 02838, 02839, 02857, 02858 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Providence County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.