Essex County, VT: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Essex County, VT, Vermont: 12 ZIP codes scored, Essex County, VT averaging 17/100 (low, Essex, VT), from 17 to 19. Essex County, VT is in its expansion phase (Essex, VT confidence 46/100): Essex, VT home prices up 6.2% (Essex, VT) over twelve months. Essex County, VT lender headwind: 50/100.

Highest-scoring Essex County, VT ZIPs: 05846 (19/100), 05824 (18/100), 05837 (17/100), 05840 (17/100), 05858 (17/100), 05901 (17/100). Also scored in Essex County, VT: 05902, 05903, 05904, 05905, 05906, 05907.

Across Essex County, VT's scored ZIPs: median home value $166,927, household income $59,141, 49.1% vacancy, 11.5% poverty, 87% owner-occupied, median age 51.1.

Essex County, VT insurance distress 45/100 (#1,226 in the US); FEMA hazard 89/100 for Essex, VT; 10 federal disaster declarations in Essex County, VT since 2023 (2 flood); Essex, VT construction distress 73/100.

2 banks with 2 branches lend in Essex County, VT; Essex, VT weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 54/100 in Essex, VT.

Essex County, VT unemployment 3.1% (Essex, VT -1.4 pts, six months); 9 new housing units permitted in Essex County, VT over twelve months, Essex, VT down 25% from 12.

4,952 housing units in Essex County, VT; 459 Essex, VT renter households; 39% of Essex, VT renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Essex, VT) half or more.

Essex County, VT ranks #128 nationally on the opportunity index (Essex, VT, among all ranked counties); Essex, VT scores 36.7/100 and Essex, VT sits #1 inside Vermont. Essex, VT is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Essex, VT's primary driver is vacancy, Essex, VT second driver construction; Essex, VT moved up 449 places. 9 short-sale listings across Essex, VT; 39 days on market observed in Essex, VT; 38.3% vacancy over 12 Essex, VT ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Essex County, VT. The state reading for Essex, VT: 0.7% ninety-plus days late; Essex, VT's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.4% (Essex, VT, December 2025 data).

Essex County, VT has 2 watched banks; 2 Essex, VT banks sit in an elevated band. Essex, VT footprints: Community National Bank (1 branch, stress 54) in Essex, VT; Passumpsic Savings Bank (1 branch, stress 51) in Essex, VT.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Essex County, VT with 10 units; 10 Essex, VT units are assisted, 1 Essex, VT properties under project-based Section 8.

2,129 of the 4,952 housing units in Essex, VT sit vacant. Essex County, VT permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Essex, VT's one-to-four unit structures added 9 units in Essex County, VT.