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Foreclosure filings decreased 15.44 percent nationally from August to September. According to ATTOM Data Solutions, a firm that tracks foreclosures, this is how the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked for foreclosure filings during September. The national average for foreclosure filings last month was 1 in every 2,099 housing units.
Foreclosure filings decreased 15.44 percent nationally from August to September. According to ATTOM Data Solutions, a firm that tracks foreclosures, this is how the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked for foreclosure filings during September. The national average for foreclosure filings last month was 1 in every 2,099 housing units.
| Rank | State | Total housing units | Ratio of homes in foreclosure* (1 in every …) |
Change from August 2017 (in %) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delaware | 414,416 | 744 | 18.76 |
| 2 | New Jersey | 3,577,942 | 788 | -20.64 |
| 3 | Maryland | 2,410,256 | 1,117 | -3.79 |
| 4 | Connecticut | 1,491,786 | 1,286 | 7.11 |
| 5 | Illinois | 5,303,675 | 1,351 | -23.57 |
| 6 | Ohio | 5,140,902 | 1,375 | -17.64 |
| 7 | South Carolina | 2,174,319 | 1,409 | -14.47 |
| 8 | New Mexico | 909,565 | 1,508 | -3.21 |
| 9 | Florida | 9,094,999 | 1,559 | -29.20 |
| 10 | New York | 8,171,725 | 1,672 | 15.21 |
| 11 | North Carolina | 4,417,210 | 1,732 | -8.60 |
| 12 | Indiana | 2,820,253 | 1,769 | -13.84 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 2,827,820 | 1,791 | 24.23 |
| 14 | Rhode Island | 462,900 | 1,808 | 18.52 |
| 15 | Oklahoma | 1,689,427 | 1,844 | -6.34 |
| 16 | Pennsylvania | 5,585,611 | 1,895 | -11.20 |
| 17 | Alabama | 2,199,329 | 1,955 | -11.63 |
| 18 | Maine | 726,227 | 2,099 | -6.99 |
| 19 | Louisiana | 1,999,855 | 2,312 | -11.37 |
| 20 | California | 13,845,790 | 2,370 | -21.87 |
| 21 | Utah | 1,011,099 | 2,540 | -0.25 |
| 22 | Arizona | 2,890,664 | 2,609 | -29.65 |
| 23 | Tennessee | 2,854,542 | 2,688 | -1.67 |
| 24 | Virginia | 3,423,291 | 2,704 | -21.22 |
| 25 | Wisconsin | 2,641,627 | 3,012 | -8.36 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 1,944,495 | 3,062 | -9.67 |
| 27 | Iowa | 1,354,264 | 3,064 | -30.83 |
| 28 | Michigan | 4,539,838 | 3,078 | -3.15 |
| 29 | Wyoming | 266,630 | 3,137 | -18.27 |
| 30 | Oregon | 1,695,183 | 3,180 | -15.80 |
| 31 | Georgia | 4,133,065 | 3,405 | -37.10 |
| 32 | Hawaii | 527,388 | 3,516 | -31.19 |
| 33 | Missouri | 2,729,862 | 3,669 | -7.00 |
| 34 | Texas | 10,305,607 | 3,695 | -21.55 |
| 35 | Nebraska | 809,811 | 3,698 | 5.29 |
| 36 | Idaho | 680,302 | 3,738 | 4.00 |
| 37 | New Hampshire | 618,950 | 3,751 | 16.20 |
| 38 | Alaska | 306,068 | 3,826 | 48.15 |
| 39 | Kansas | 1,244,372 | 3,841 | -14.51 |
| 40 | Minnesota | 2,373,884 | 4,209 | -6.00 |
| 41 | Washington | 2,942,127 | 4,258 | -26.02 |
| 42 | Colorado | 2,261,063 | 4,760 | -22.39 |
| 43 | Arkansas | 1,335,016 | 4,890 | -7.14 |
| 44 | Mississippi | 1,289,704 | 5,221 | -23.29 |
| 45 | Nevada | 1,192,083 | 5,990 | -68.41 |
| 46 | Vermont | 325,174 | 6,774 | 29.73 |
| 47 | West Virginia | 883,984 | 10,524 | -11.58 |
| 48 | Montana | 488,845 | 11,368 | -23.21 |
| 49 | North Dakota | 341,062 | 14,211 | 166.67 |
| 50 | South Dakota | 368,750 | 17,560 | -34.38 |
| District of Columbia | 303,312 | 2,214 | -27.89 |
*Ratio of foreclosure is based on the total number of properties entered into ATTOM Data Solutions’ database during the year, broken out by type of filing.
