Most Foreclosures Pack Into a Few Counties
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Most Foreclosures Pack Into a Few Counties
STATE-BY-STATE GRAPHIC: Foreclosures in 2008
WASHINGTON — More than half of the nation’s foreclosures last year took place in 35 counties, a sign that the financial crisis devastating the national economy may have begun with collapsing home loans in only a few corners of the country.
Those counties, spread over a dozen states, accounted for more than 1.5 million foreclosure actions last year, a USA TODAY analysis of figures compiled by the real estate listing firm RealtyTrac shows — more than were recorded in the entire United States just two years earlier. They were the epicenter of a wave of foreclosures that have left leading banks teetering and magnified the nation’s economic problems.
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Do we have any interpretation of this data or is it just a point of interest?