Benton County, WA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Benton County, WA, Washington: 12 ZIP codes scored, Benton County, WA averaging 27/100 (low, Benton, WA), from 26 to 31. Benton County, WA is in its peak phase (Benton, WA confidence 11/100): Benton, WA home prices up 1.6% (Benton, WA) over twelve months. Benton County, WA lender headwind: 27/100.

Highest-scoring Benton County, WA ZIPs: 98930 (31/100), 98944 (28/100), 99320 (27/100), 99336 (27/100), 99337 (27/100), 99338 (27/100). Also scored in Benton County, WA: 99345, 99346, 99352, 99353, 99354, 99350.

Across Benton County, WA's scored ZIPs: median home value $374,067, household income $84,317, 5.6% vacancy, 12.6% poverty, 70% owner-occupied, median age 35.7.

Benton County, WA insurance distress 63/100 (#821 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Benton, WA; 2 federal disaster declarations in Benton County, WA since 2023 (2 flood); 12 Benton, WA NFIP flood claims, $239K paid; Benton, WA construction distress 21/100.

16 banks with 32 branches lend in Benton County, WA; Benton, WA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 84/100 in Benton, WA.

Benton County, WA unemployment 4.4% (Benton, WA -1.2 pts, six months); 1,534 new housing units permitted in Benton County, WA over twelve months, Benton, WA up 30% from 1,179; Benton, WA home prices +7.5% a year (Benton, WA) over three years.

83,101 housing units in Benton County, WA; 24,163 Benton, WA renter households; 45% of Benton, WA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Benton, WA) half or more.

Benton County, WA ranks #2,951 nationally on the opportunity index (Benton, WA, among all ranked counties); Benton, WA scores 23.5/100 and Benton, WA sits #36 inside Washington. Benton, WA is in the weak opportunity phase; Benton, WA's primary driver is bank institutional, Benton, WA second driver vacancy; Benton, WA moved up 123 places. 9 short-sale listings across Benton, WA; 76 days on market observed in Benton, WA; 6.0% vacancy over 12 Benton, WA ZIPs.

0.7% of Benton County, WA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Benton, WA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.6% (CFPB county sample). Benton, WA's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Benton, WA peak since 2008 was 3.2% in January 2010; Washington overall reads 0.6%.

Benton County, WA has 6 watched banks; 6 Benton, WA banks sit in an elevated band. Benton, WA footprints: Banner Bank (4 branches, stress 58) in Benton, WA; Yakima Fs&La (4 branches, stress 32) in Benton, WA; Baker-Boyer National Bank (1 branch, stress 84) in Benton, WA.

HUD lists 15 assisted multifamily properties in Benton County, WA with 1,316 units; 543 Benton, WA units are assisted, 3 Benton, WA properties under project-based Section 8.

5,055 of the 83,101 housing units in Benton, WA sit vacant. Benton County, WA permitted 519 multifamily units in twelve months; Benton, WA's one-to-four unit structures added 1,015 units in Benton County, WA.