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

For Fairfax County, Virginia, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 44 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. 49 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 24/100 distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 14 up to 25/100.

In its peak phase, Fairfax County home prices rose 3.4% across the last year (phase confidence 23/100). With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Fairfax County flat at +3.4% YoY (23/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 44/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

By composite, 20120 (25/100), 20121 (25/100), 20124 (25/100), 20151 (25/100), 20170 (25/100), 20171 (25/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 20190, 20191, 20194, 22003, 22015, 22027, 22033, 22035, 22039, 22041.

Underneath the scores, Fairfax County's tracked footprint report poverty running near 5.8%, a 4.1% vacancy rate, a median household income near $151,469 (above the US norm), home values averaging roughly $783,613, above the US, 67% of homes owner-occupied, residents with a median age around 39.5. Read together, they frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

With a low 24/100 reading over 49 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Fairfax County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

Treat Fairfax County, Virginia as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. What supports the Fairfax County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Fairfax County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 20120 (25/100), 20121 (25/100), 20124 (25/100), 20151 (25/100), 20170 (25/100), 20171 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 20190, 20191, 20194, 22003, 22015, 22027, 22033, 22035 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 Fairfax 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.