There’s a pretty neat interactive graphic over at the Associated Press where they’ve got the rates for unemployment, foreclosures, and bankruptcies by county across the entire U.S. going back to late-2007, just before the start of the Great Recession.
Not surprisingly, the housing bubble states of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Florida continue to fare the worst, though the results vary widely by county, those in such tony locales as Santa Barbara and Marin Counties in California now about as stressed as Wichita Kansas. You get a much different picture when you select Foreclosure at the top, bank repossessions being very much a coastal and rust belt development.
