Essex County, VA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Essex County, VA, Virginia: 9 ZIP codes scored, Essex County, VA averaging 8/100 (minimal, Essex, VA), from 3 to 9. Essex County, VA is in its expansion phase (Essex, VA confidence 30/100): Essex, VA home prices up 5.5% (Essex, VA) over twelve months. Essex County, VA lender headwind: 18/100.
Highest-scoring Essex County, VA ZIPs: 22436 (9/100), 22454 (9/100), 22476 (9/100), 22504 (9/100), 22509 (9/100), 22438 (8/100). Also scored in Essex County, VA: 22560, 22437, 23148.
Across Essex County, VA's scored ZIPs: median home value $219,800, household income $65,652, 20.0% vacancy, 11.0% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 52.3.
Essex County, VA insurance distress 0/100 (#3,139 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Essex, VA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Essex County, VA since 2023; Essex, VA construction distress 55/100.
3 banks with 4 branches lend in Essex County, VA; Essex, VA weighted bank stress 52/100, highest 66/100 in Essex, VA.
Essex County, VA unemployment 4.0% (Essex, VA -0.5 pts, six months); 41 new housing units permitted in Essex County, VA over twelve months, Essex, VA down 9% from 45; Essex, VA home prices +9.3% a year (Essex, VA) over three years.
5,811 housing units in Essex County, VA; 1,365 Essex, VA renter households; 45% of Essex, VA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Essex, VA) half or more.
Essex County, VA ranks #2,786 nationally on the opportunity index (Essex, VA, among all ranked counties); Essex, VA scores 24.5/100 and Essex, VA sits #88 inside Virginia. Essex, VA is in the weak opportunity phase; Essex, VA's primary driver is vacancy, Essex, VA second driver construction; Essex, VA moved down 595 places. 0 days on market observed in Essex, VA; 22.4% vacancy over 9 Essex, VA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Essex County, VA. The non-metro area reading for Essex, VA: 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Essex, VA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Essex, VA, December 2025 data); Virginia overall 0.8%.
Essex County, VA has 3 watched banks; 3 Essex, VA banks sit in an elevated band. Essex, VA footprints: Primis Bank (2 branches, stress 66) in Essex, VA; Atlantic Union Bank (1 branch, stress 40) in Essex, VA; United Bank (1 branch, stress 36) in Essex, VA.
1,364 of the 5,811 housing units in Essex, VA sit vacant. Essex County, VA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Essex, VA's one-to-four unit structures added 41 units in Essex County, VA.