Louisiana County Foreclosure & Distress Reports (2026)
One report per county — 64 in Louisiana — each scored 0-100 from public foreclosure, tax-lien, mortgage and bank-stress records and refreshed monthly. The live county pages sit under the Louisiana distress hub; insurance pressure is on the Louisiana home-insurance page.
64 Louisiana county reports sit in this archive; Louisiana opportunity phases run 28 peak_opportunity, 13 strong_buy, 9 early_signal; Louisiana ninety-day delinquency 2.1%; 104 banks chartered in Louisiana; 37,089 HUD-assisted Louisiana units.
Louisiana counties to open first by opportunity rank: Franklin (#12, strong_buy); St. John The Baptist (#13, strong_buy); Avoyelles (#18, overheated) in Louisiana; Sabine (#24, overheated); St. James (#37, strong_buy); St. Helena (#52, strong_buy).
Louisiana insurance bands across counties: 28 high in Louisiana, 27 medium, 9 low; Louisiana NFIP claims 4,335 in three years.
Louisiana counties in the peak phase (29): Ascension, Assumption, Beauregard, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana (Louisiana), Grant, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Lincoln, Livingston (Louisiana), Natchitoches, Orleans, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, St. Bernard (Louisiana), St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John The Baptist, St. Landry, St. Mary (Louisiana), Tangipahoa, Washington, Webster, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana.
Louisiana counties in the contraction phase (20): Allen, Avoyelles, Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne (Louisiana), East Carroll, Evangeline, Franklin, Jackson, Lafourche, Lasalle (Louisiana), Madison, Red River, Sabine, Tensas, Terrebonne, Vernon (Louisiana), West Carroll, Winn.
Louisiana counties in the expansion phase (10): Acadia, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Cameron, De Soto (Louisiana), Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, St. Martin, Vermilion.
Louisiana counties in the recovery phase (5): Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, St. Tammany, Union.
Louisiana permitted 14,034 housing units in twelve months; 304,122 Louisiana units sit vacant of 2,108,902.
Louisiana counties highest on the national opportunity index: Franklin #12 (42.6/100, strong_buy); St. John The Baptist #13 (42.4/100, strong_buy); Avoyelles #18 (40.8/100, overheated) in Louisiana; Sabine #24 (39.8/100, overheated); St. James #37 (39.0/100, strong_buy); St. Helena #52 (38.5/100, strong_buy) in Louisiana; Cameron #57 (38.3/100, strong_buy); Terrebonne #57 (38.3/100, strong_buy); Madison #73 (37.9/100, strong_buy) in Louisiana; Calcasieu #73 (37.9/100, strong_buy); Jefferson Davis #106 (37.1/100, strong_buy); Orleans #106 (37.1/100, strong_buy) in Louisiana.
How the Louisiana county reports are scored: each Louisiana report reads its county's foreclosure filings, Louisiana tax-lien and tax-deed records, FHA mortgage delinquency in Louisiana (ninety-day rate 2.1%, December 2025), the FDIC stress of Louisiana lenders (104 chartered in Louisiana) and FEMA/NFIP pressure on Louisiana (4,335 NFIP claims, three years), then scores every Louisiana ZIP 0-100.
Franklin County leads Louisiana on the opportunity index at #12 nationally with 7 scored ZIPs. Every Louisiana report is rebuilt monthly from public records; a Louisiana county whose data lapses keeps its Louisiana page and says so.