Newport News County, VA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Newport News County, VA, Virginia: 8 ZIP codes scored, Newport News County, VA averaging 26/100 (low, Newport News, VA). Newport News County, VA is in its peak phase (Newport News, VA confidence 30/100): Newport News, VA home prices up 3.4% (Newport News, VA) over twelve months. Newport News County, VA lender headwind: 33/100.

Highest-scoring Newport News County, VA ZIPs: 23601 (26/100), 23602 (26/100), 23603 (26/100), 23604 (26/100), 23605 (26/100), 23606 (26/100). Also scored in Newport News County, VA: 23607, 23608.

Across Newport News County, VA's scored ZIPs: median home value $255,100, household income $66,006, 8.9% vacancy, 13.8% poverty, 42% owner-occupied, median age 33.5.

Newport News County, VA insurance distress 24/100 (#1,973 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Newport News, VA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Newport News County, VA since 2023; 7 Newport News, VA NFIP flood claims, $79K paid; Newport News, VA construction distress 100/100.

12 banks with 20 branches lend in Newport News County, VA; Newport News, VA weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 71/100 in Newport News, VA.

Newport News County, VA unemployment 4.2% (Newport News, VA -0.3 pts, six months); 91 new housing units permitted in Newport News County, VA over twelve months, Newport News, VA down 84% from 577; Newport News, VA home prices +9.2% a year (Newport News, VA) over three years.

82,052 housing units in Newport News County, VA; 39,346 Newport News, VA renter households; 49% of Newport News, VA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Newport News, VA) half or more.

Newport News County, VA ranks #2,202 nationally on the opportunity index (Newport News, VA, among all ranked counties); Newport News, VA scores 27.0/100 and Newport News, VA sits #64 inside Virginia. Newport News, VA is in the weak opportunity phase; Newport News, VA's primary driver is construction, Newport News, VA second driver bank institutional; Newport News, VA moved down 271 places. 15 short-sale listings across Newport News, VA; 126 days on market observed in Newport News, VA; 7.3% vacancy over 8 Newport News, VA ZIPs.

1.3% of Newport News County, VA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Newport News, VA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.0% (CFPB county sample). Newport News, VA's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Newport News, VA peak since 2008 was 4.3% in January 2012; Virginia overall reads 0.8%.

Newport News County, VA has 4 watched banks; 4 Newport News, VA banks sit in an elevated band. Newport News, VA footprints: Townebank (4 branches, stress 36) in Newport News, VA; Primis Bank (1 branch, stress 66) in Newport News, VA; Citizens&Farmers Bank (1 branch, stress 59) in Newport News, VA.

HUD lists 25 assisted multifamily properties in Newport News County, VA with 2,598 units; 854 Newport News, VA units are assisted, 3 Newport News, VA properties under project-based Section 8.

5,940 of the 82,052 housing units in Newport News, VA sit vacant. Newport News County, VA permitted 32 multifamily units in twelve months; Newport News, VA's one-to-four unit structures added 59 units in Newport News County, VA.