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10. Virginia
> Pct. homes underwater: 23%
> Total property value: $428.46 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $307.48 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 16.7% (21st-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 4.1% (ninth-smallest percentage)

According to CoreLogic’s Q4 2011 report, 23% of Virginia’s mortgaged homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their property is worth. An additional 6% are on the verge of being underwater. Compared to many of the markets that have large numbers of upside-down homeowners, Virginia was not one of the worst-hit markets by the housing collapse. Despite the high percentage of underwater mortgages, the rate of mortgaged homes in delinquency or foreclosure is one of the lowest in the country. One of the reasons for this is the ability of homeowners to remain solvent. Virginia has an unemployment rate of just 6.2%, the 11th lowest in the country, as well as low poverty and high median income.



9. Ohio
> Pct. homes underwater: 23.9%
> Total property value: $310.62 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $238.20 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 14.4% (23rd-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 6.9% (14th-largest percentage)

Of the 2.2 million mortgages in the state of Ohio, more than 525 million have negative equity, and an additional 134 million are on the brink of being underwater. As of the end of 2011, 6.9% of homes in the state were either currently in foreclosure or have been delinquent for 90 days or more on payments. The total value of all mortgaged homes in the state is $310 billion, and outstanding mortgage debt for those homes is $238 billion. This loan-to-value ratio, 76.7%, is the sixth highest in the country.



8. Maryland
> Pct. homes underwater: 24.3%
> Total property value: $418.34 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $296.81 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 23.7% (12th-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 8.0% (tied for fifth-largest percentage)

Like those in Virginia, Maryland’s residents appear to be in good financial shape, despite the fact that nearly one in four mortgaged homes are underwater. Median income in the state is the highest in the country and the poverty rate is the third lowest. However, this has not been enough to save a large percentage of state residents from financial troubles. Some 8% of mortgaged homes are either in foreclosure or at least 90 days delinquent on their mortgages, tied for the fifth-highest rate in the country.



7. Idaho
> Pct. homes underwater: 25.0%
> Total property value: $49.76 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $36.58 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 29.3% (sixth-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 5.2% (20th-smallest percentage)

Like Maryland, nearly one in every four Idaho homes are underwater, although the financial situations of the two states could not be more different. Idaho has the 13th-lowest median income in the country, above-average unemployment and a poverty rate of 14.3% (compared to Maryland’s 9.1%). Since its peak in the first quarter of 2011, home prices in the state of Idaho have fallen nearly 30%. According to Gallup’s recent consumer confidence poll, Idaho residents had the third-lowest confidence in the national economy of any state.



6. California
> Pct. homes underwater: 29.9%
> Total property value: $2.73 trillion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $1.94 trillion
> Median home value drop from peak: 46.7% (third-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 7.0% (12th-largest percentage)

As of the fourth quarter of 2011, there was $8.7 trillion in mortgage debt nationwide — $1.94 trillion of that, or 22%, is located in California. Nearly 30% of California’s mortgages are underwater, and 16.1% of mortgages are worth less than 80% of their debt. From its prerecession peak in the first quarter of 2006, home values have fallen 46.7% and are projected to fall an additional 4.2% by the third quarter of this year.

5. Georgia
> Pct. homes underwater: 33.0%
> Total property value: $306.59 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $252.81 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 26% (10th-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 8.0% (tied for fifth-largest percentage)

One-third of mortgage owners in Georgia have more mortgage debt than their homes are worth. Since the home values peaked in the state in 2007, prices have declined 26%. The state has the ninth-most mortgaged homes in the country and even more homes underwater. At 540,000 it has the fourth-most underwater mortgages of any state. Georgia’s unemployment rate is the ninth-highest in the country.

4. Michigan
> Pct. homes underwater: 34.7%
> Total property value: $198.05 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $165.45 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 30.1% (fifth-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 6.5% (19th-largest percentage)

Michigan’s economy and housing market was already in bad shape leading up to the recession, and things have only gotten worse. The state experienced a net loss in population between 2000 and 2010, the only state that lost residents during the period. Unemployment has improved somewhat in the past few years, but it is still the tenth-highest rate in the U.S. Michigan home value began to decline before the recession hit, after peaking in 2005. Since that time, home prices have dropped by 33%.

3. Florida
> Pct. homes underwater: 44.2%
> Total property value: $809.95 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $706.00 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 44.8% (fourth-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 17.4% (the largest percentage)

No state has a larger gross vacancy rate than Florida, standing at more than 20%. When the housing market flourished, the state geared up for the impending retirement of millions of baby boomers by constructing tens of thousands of new homes. When the market collapsed, real estate investments in the state were hit hard. Florida’s home value has plummeted by more than 40% — the second largest drop in the country — and nearly one in two mortgaged homes are underwater.

2. Arizona
> Pct. homes underwater: 48.3%
> Total property value: $243.02 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $226.22 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 47.9% (second-biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 7.1% (11th-largest percentage)

Through the first half of the decade, states like Nevada, Utah and Arizona experienced record growth in population, business and, as a result, new construction. Conditions reversed in 2008, and the states that once led in property value growth and employment, like Arizona, fell through the floor. In the third quarter of 2006, Arizona had median home value of $254,655. To date, that value has dropped by more than $100,000. Some 48.3% of all mortgaged homes are now underwater.

1. Nevada
> Pct. homes underwater: 61.1%
> Total property value: $96.57 billion
> Mortgage debt outstanding: $109.94 billion
> Median home value drop from peak: 60% (the biggest decline)
> Homes in foreclosure or 90+ days delinquent: 13.4% (second-largest percentage)

Like Arizona, Nevada’s property value has plummeted since the middle of the decade, losing more than $150,000 on average (more than 50%) in just five years. Nevada is also the only state in the country in which total homeowner debt is actually higher than the total property value of owned homes — nearly two in three mortgaged homes are underwater. As of the end of 2011, 13.4% of mortgages were either already in the foreclosure process or more than 90 days delinquent on their payments.