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

Orleans County, VT, Vermont: 24 ZIP codes scored, Orleans County, VT averaging 29/100 (low, Orleans, VT), from 19 to 30. Orleans County, VT is in its expansion phase (Orleans, VT confidence 46/100): Orleans, VT home prices up 6.2% (Orleans, VT) over twelve months. Orleans County, VT lender headwind: 40/100.

Highest-scoring Orleans County, VT ZIPs: 05820 (30/100), 05822 (30/100), 05825 (30/100), 05826 (30/100), 05827 (30/100), 05829 (30/100). Also scored in Orleans County, VT: 05830, 05833, 05839, 05841, 05845, 05847, 05853, 05855, 05857, 05859.

Across Orleans County, VT's scored ZIPs: median home value $250,805, household income $65,827, 32.4% vacancy, 10.4% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 49.1.

Orleans County, VT insurance distress 82/100 (#306 in the US); FEMA hazard 89/100 for Orleans, VT; 10 federal disaster declarations in Orleans County, VT since 2023 (2 flood); 5 Orleans, VT NFIP flood claims, $69K paid; Orleans, VT construction distress 95/100.

3 banks with 7 branches lend in Orleans County, VT; Orleans, VT weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 54/100 in Orleans, VT.

Orleans County, VT unemployment 3.2% (Orleans, VT -2.7 pts, six months); 90 new housing units permitted in Orleans County, VT over twelve months, Orleans, VT down 45% from 164; Orleans, VT home prices +13.5% a year (Orleans, VT) over three years.

16,751 housing units in Orleans County, VT; 2,365 Orleans, VT renter households; 43% of Orleans, VT renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Orleans, VT) half or more.

Orleans County, VT ranks #435 nationally on the opportunity index (Orleans, VT, among all ranked counties); Orleans, VT scores 33.8/100 and Orleans, VT sits #3 inside Vermont. Orleans, VT is in the overheated opportunity phase; Orleans, VT's primary driver is vacancy, Orleans, VT second driver construction; Orleans, VT moved down 151 places. 8 short-sale listings across Orleans, VT; 47 days on market observed in Orleans, VT; 26.3% vacancy over 24 Orleans, VT ZIPs.

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

Orleans County, VT has 2 watched banks; 2 Orleans, VT banks sit in an elevated band. Orleans, VT footprints: Community National Bank (5 branches, stress 54) in Orleans, VT; Passumpsic Savings Bank (1 branch, stress 51) in Orleans, VT.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Orleans County, VT with 15 units; 12 Orleans, VT units are assisted.

4,679 of the 16,751 housing units in Orleans, VT sit vacant. Orleans County, VT permitted 41 multifamily units in twelve months; Orleans, VT's one-to-four unit structures added 49 units in Orleans County, VT.