Salt Lake County, UT: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Salt Lake County, UT, Utah: 42 ZIP codes scored, Salt Lake County, UT averaging 23/100 (low, Salt Lake, UT), from 23 to 24. Salt Lake County, UT is in its peak phase (Salt Lake, UT confidence 19/100): Salt Lake, UT home prices up 1.9% (Salt Lake, UT) over twelve months. Salt Lake County, UT lender headwind: 48/100.
Highest-scoring Salt Lake County, UT ZIPs: 84020 (24/100), 84006 (23/100), 84009 (23/100), 84044 (23/100), 84047 (23/100), 84065 (23/100). Also scored in Salt Lake County, UT: 84070, 84081, 84084, 84088, 84092, 84093, 84094, 84095, 84096, 84101.
Across Salt Lake County, UT's scored ZIPs: median home value $549,500, household income $99,297, 5.7% vacancy, 12.3% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 33.6.
Salt Lake County, UT insurance distress 23/100 (#2,119 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Salt Lake, UT; 13 Salt Lake, UT NFIP flood claims, $21K paid; Salt Lake, UT construction distress 31/100.
57 banks with 205 branches lend in Salt Lake County, UT; Salt Lake, UT weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 92/100 in Salt Lake, UT.
Salt Lake County, UT unemployment 3.7% (Salt Lake, UT -0.4 pts, six months); 7,152 new housing units permitted in Salt Lake County, UT over twelve months, Salt Lake, UT up 19% from 5,995; Salt Lake, UT home prices +7.8% a year (Salt Lake, UT) over three years.
449,662 housing units in Salt Lake County, UT; 137,488 Salt Lake, UT renter households; 46% of Salt Lake, UT renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Salt Lake, UT) half or more.
Salt Lake County, UT ranks #2,874 nationally on the opportunity index (Salt Lake, UT, among all ranked counties); Salt Lake, UT scores 24.0/100 and Salt Lake, UT sits #25 inside Utah. Salt Lake, UT is in the weak opportunity phase; Salt Lake, UT's primary driver is bank institutional, Salt Lake, UT second driver construction; Salt Lake, UT moved up 201 places. 365 short-sale listings across Salt Lake, UT; 76 days on market observed in Salt Lake, UT; 4.9% vacancy over 42 Salt Lake, UT ZIPs.
0.5% of Salt Lake County, UT mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Salt Lake, UT's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.6% (CFPB county sample). Salt Lake, UT's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Salt Lake, UT peak since 2008 was 4.1% in December 2009; Utah overall reads 0.7%.
Salt Lake County, UT has 36 watched banks; 36 Salt Lake, UT banks sit in an elevated band. Salt Lake, UT footprints: Zions Bcorp N A (28 branches, stress 64) in Salt Lake, UT; First Utah Bank (6 branches, stress 75) in Salt Lake, UT; Brighton Bank (5 branches, stress 53) in Salt Lake, UT.
HUD lists 64 assisted multifamily properties in Salt Lake County, UT with 6,901 units; 1,205 Salt Lake, UT units are assisted, 14 Salt Lake, UT properties under project-based Section 8.
23,417 of the 449,662 housing units in Salt Lake, UT sit vacant. Salt Lake County, UT permitted 4,451 multifamily units in twelve months; Salt Lake, UT's one-to-four unit structures added 2,701 units in Salt Lake County, UT.