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

Every ZIP in Washington County, Rhode Island carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Coverage runs to 20 ZIPs across Washington County, a low 28/100 average. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 47 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 4.4% over twelve months (phase confidence 31/100). This late in the run, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Washington County flat at +4.4% YoY (31/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 47/100 points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Washington County are 02804 (28/100), 02807 (28/100), 02808 (28/100), 02812 (28/100), 02813 (28/100), 02822 (28/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Other tracked Washington County ZIPs include 02832, 02833, 02836, 02852, 02873, 02874, 02875, 02879, 02881, 02882.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Washington County show 20.4% of units sitting vacant, home values averaging roughly $522,653, above the US, incomes around $108,071, 79% owner-occupancy, poverty running near 7%, a median age of 44.5. These fundamentals shape both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Net of it all, 28/100 over 20 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Washington County property carries owner, APN and address, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Because Washington County, Rhode Island is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Washington County against neighboring markets or the rest of Rhode Island on equal footing.

In Washington County, Rhode Island, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. 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 Washington County data is thin.

Drilling in, Washington County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 02804 (28/100), 02807 (28/100), 02808 (28/100), 02812 (28/100), 02813 (28/100), 02822 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 02832, 02833, 02836, 02852, 02873, 02874, 02875, 02879 and more 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.

DLRadar's composite for Washington 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.