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

Fairfax County, VA, Virginia: 49 ZIP codes scored, Fairfax County, VA averaging 22/100 (low, Fairfax, VA), from 13 to 23. Fairfax County, VA is in its peak phase (Fairfax, VA confidence 23/100): Fairfax, VA home prices up 3.4% (Fairfax, VA) over twelve months. Fairfax County, VA lender headwind: 44/100.

Highest-scoring Fairfax County, VA ZIPs: 20121 (23/100), 20124 (23/100), 20151 (23/100), 20170 (23/100), 20171 (23/100), 20190 (23/100). Also scored in Fairfax County, VA: 20191, 20194, 22003, 22015, 22027, 22033, 22035, 22039, 22041, 22042.

Across Fairfax County, VA's scored ZIPs: median home value $783,613, household income $151,469, 4.1% vacancy, 5.8% poverty, 67% owner-occupied, median age 39.5.

Fairfax County, VA insurance distress 24/100 (#1,963 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Fairfax, VA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Fairfax County, VA since 2023; 22 Fairfax, VA NFIP flood claims, $74K paid; Fairfax, VA construction distress 34/100.

38 banks with 237 branches lend in Fairfax County, VA; Fairfax, VA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 84/100 in Fairfax, VA.

Fairfax County, VA unemployment 3.3% (Fairfax, VA -0.5 pts, six months); 3,280 new housing units permitted in Fairfax County, VA over twelve months, Fairfax, VA up 16% from 2,834; Fairfax, VA home prices +7.4% a year (Fairfax, VA) over three years.

430,047 housing units in Fairfax County, VA; 130,624 Fairfax, VA renter households; 44% of Fairfax, VA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Fairfax, VA) half or more.

Fairfax County, VA ranks #3,046 nationally on the opportunity index (Fairfax, VA, among all ranked counties); Fairfax, VA scores 22.7/100 and Fairfax, VA sits #115 inside Virginia. Fairfax, VA is in the weak opportunity phase; Fairfax, VA's primary driver is bank institutional, Fairfax, VA second driver construction; Fairfax, VA moved up 63 places. 150 short-sale listings across Fairfax, VA; 78 days on market observed in Fairfax, VA; 3.6% vacancy over 49 Fairfax, VA ZIPs.

0.3% of Fairfax County, VA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Fairfax, VA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.6% (CFPB county sample). Fairfax, VA's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Fairfax, VA peak since 2008 was 3.2% in October 2009; Virginia overall reads 0.8%.

Fairfax County, VA has 14 watched banks; 14 Fairfax, VA banks sit in an elevated band. Fairfax, VA footprints: United Bank (16 branches, stress 36) in Fairfax, VA; Burke&Herbert Bank&Trust Co (13 branches, stress 62) in Fairfax, VA; Capital One National Assn (12 branches, stress 40) in Fairfax, VA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Fairfax County, VA with 8 units; 8 Fairfax, VA units are assisted.

15,946 of the 430,047 housing units in Fairfax, VA sit vacant. Fairfax County, VA permitted 2,555 multifamily units in twelve months; Fairfax, VA's one-to-four unit structures added 725 units in Fairfax County, VA.