If your home is on a sale list
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Quick answers
How many foreclosures are scheduled for sheriff sale in New Jersey right now?
On October 5, 2026, 1,509 properties were listed for upcoming sheriff sale in the 16 counties covered here, which excludes Mercer, Ocean, Somerset, Sussex and Warren. 854 had a sale date within 30 days. These are scheduled auctions at the end of the foreclosure process, not new foreclosure filings.
Which New Jersey county has the most sheriff sales?
Camden County had the most scheduled sales (197), followed by Essex (186) and Middlesex (144). Larger counties naturally have more listings; the numbers are counts, not rates per household.
Does a scheduled sheriff sale mean the home will be sold?
No. Sale dates are frequently adjourned, and cases settle, reinstate, or pause for bankruptcy. That is why this report counts scheduled listings and never treats them as completed sales. For foreclosure filings and state rankings, see New Jersey foreclosure statistics.
Methodology
Source. Each county sheriff's public foreclosure sale listing on CivilView (salesweb.civilview.com), read once per county on October 5, 2026. Each county's own page states when it was last updated; every county included here had updated its list within the week before that date.
What is counted. “Scheduled” is every listing in the county's Open view, less any already-decided properties noted below. The 30-, 60- and 90-day and weekly figures use each listing's current sale date. “Sold or cancelled, past 30 days” counts listings in CivilView's Sold/Cancelled view with a sale date in the 30 days before the report date; CivilView combines the two outcomes, so this figure cannot say how many were actually sold. The adjournment figure comes from reading the status history of an evenly spaced sample of up to 15 listings per county (240 in total) and counting those with any adjournment entry (bankruptcy holds alone are not counted). Towns are taken from the end of each listed address and matched to the county's own town list; towns with fewer than 3 listings are not shown. Plaintiffs are grouped by type from the name on the listing, and only institutions are named.
Already-decided properties set aside. Middlesex (63) keeps some properties in the Open view after they have been purchased, redeemed or cancelled. Those are not scheduled sales, so they are excluded from every count above.
Sold or cancelled history not available for Burlington, whose CivilView Sold/Cancelled view was empty or too short on the report date; the statewide sold-or-cancelled figure covers the other 15 counties.
Scheduled is not sold. Listings change daily. Sales are frequently adjourned (New Jersey law allows several adjournments, and courts can order more), and many cases end without a sale at all. Nothing here is a count of completed foreclosures or a prediction of how many will occur.
Counties not included (5). These counties are left out rather than estimated:
Privacy. This report publishes totals only. No homeowner names, street addresses, sheriff numbers or case numbers are stored or published, even though the county lists are public.
How to cite this report
Journalists, nonprofits and researchers are welcome to use these figures with attribution under CC BY 4.0. Please describe the numbers as scheduled sheriff sales, and include the data date.
NJ Foreclosure Guide, “New Jersey Sheriff Sale Report — October 2026,” data as of October 5, 2026, compiled from county sheriff listings on CivilView. https://njforeclosureguide.org/reports/nj-sheriff-sales/
The report is refreshed monthly at the same address: https://njforeclosureguide.org/reports/nj-sheriff-sales/
Educational information, not legal advice. Compiled from public county sheriff listings, which each sheriff's office notes may not be complete or current; the county's own list is always the authority for any individual sale.