Best and Worst Performing Orange County Zip Codes

The Orange County Register’s Jonathon Lansner put together his Zippy’s, an analysis of the 83 Orange County zip codes. The chart gives a year over year breakdown of sales volume, price changes, and number of foreclosures in each of the 83 zip codes.

The chart is definitely worth taking a few minutes to look at for the zip you are living in or if you considering a purchase in an Orange County city.

Some of the worst performing zip codes continue to be those in Santa Ana. In one of its zip codes, 92701, 23.3 of every 1000 homes is in foreclosure ranking it the worst in the county. Ladera Ranch, the home to much speculative purchases and high loan to value lending, ranked 81 with a 34% fall in sales activity and 26% fall in prices.

Newport Beach is the number 1 zip code with zero foreclosures per 1000 and one of the few places where positive numbers are seen in sales and pricing, but I’ll be interested to see if they continue to remain untouched by these markets. With the financial and economic woes becoming more widespread, we may see a ‘trickle up’ to this market in the coming months.