Salem County, VA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Salem County, VA, Virginia: 1 ZIP code scored, Salem County, VA averaging 23/100 (low, Salem, VA). Salem County, VA is in its peak phase (Salem, VA confidence 30/100): Salem, VA home prices up 3.1% (Salem, VA) over twelve months. Salem County, VA lender headwind: 53/100.
Highest-scoring Salem County, VA ZIPs: 24153 (23/100).
Across Salem County, VA's scored ZIPs: median home value $266,500, household income $72,691, 7.9% vacancy, 10.1% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 42.5.
Salem County, VA insurance distress 24/100 (#2,001 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Salem, VA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Salem County, VA since 2023; 12 Salem, VA NFIP flood claims, $47K paid; Salem, VA construction distress 51/100.
9 banks with 10 branches lend in Salem County, VA; Salem, VA weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 71/100 in Salem, VA.
Salem County, VA unemployment 3.5% (Salem, VA -0.2 pts, six months); 56 new housing units permitted in Salem County, VA over twelve months, Salem, VA down 78% from 260; Salem, VA home prices +10.8% a year (Salem, VA) over three years.
11,112 housing units in Salem County, VA; 3,699 Salem, VA renter households; 46% of Salem, VA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Salem, VA) half or more.
Salem County, VA ranks #2,969 nationally on the opportunity index (Salem, VA, among all ranked counties); Salem, VA scores 23.4/100 and Salem, VA sits #106 inside Virginia. Salem, VA is in the weak opportunity phase; Salem, VA's primary driver is bank institutional, Salem, VA second driver construction; Salem, VA moved down 57 places. 149 days on market observed in Salem, VA; 7.9% vacancy over 1 Salem, VA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Salem County, VA. The metro area reading for Salem, VA (Roanoke, VA): 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Salem, VA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.2% (Salem, VA, December 2025 data); Virginia overall 0.8%.
Salem County, VA has 3 watched banks; 3 Salem, VA banks sit in an elevated band. Salem, VA footprints: Bank Of Botetourt (1 branch, stress 52) in Salem, VA; Atlantic Union Bank (1 branch, stress 40) in Salem, VA; Carter Bank&Trust (1 branch, stress 35) in Salem, VA.
856 of the 11,112 housing units in Salem, VA sit vacant. Salem County, VA permitted 26 multifamily units in twelve months; Salem, VA's one-to-four unit structures added 30 units in Salem County, VA.