Essex County, VA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

For Essex County, Virginia, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. ZIP-level distress ranges from 9/100 at the top down to 3/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 18/100. DLRadar scores 9 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 8/100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.5% over the past year, a 30/100-confidence read. Even as prices climb, some owners fall behind anyway and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

Through Essex County's +5.5% YoY climb (30/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. A contained 18/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

The sharpest Essex County readings come from 22436 (9/100), 22454 (9/100), 22476 (9/100), 22504 (9/100), 22509 (9/100), 22438 (8/100) — open any for the parcel detail. The breakdown continues through 22560, 22437, 23148 and more.

Underneath the scores, Essex County's tracked footprint show typical home values near $219,800, a median household income near $65,652 (below the US norm), a 20% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 52.3, 80% of homes owner-occupied, 11% of households below the poverty line. Read together, they frame who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

All in at 8/100 over 9 ZIPs, Essex County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Essex County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

The distress read for Essex County, Virginia is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Essex County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

The way to work Essex County, Virginia is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 9/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Essex County with undifferentiated outreach. Every Essex County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

The ZIP breakdown for Essex County leads with 22436 (9/100), 22454 (9/100), 22476 (9/100), 22504 (9/100), 22509 (9/100), 22438 (8/100). DLRadar also scores 22560, 22437, 23148 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 Essex 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.