Dekalb County, AL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Dekalb County, AL, Alabama: 24 ZIP codes scored, Dekalb County, AL averaging 27/100 (low, Dekalb, AL), from 23 to 31. Dekalb County, AL is in its peak phase (Dekalb, AL confidence 22/100): Dekalb, AL home prices up 3.2% (Dekalb, AL) over twelve months. Dekalb County, AL lender headwind: 35/100.
Highest-scoring Dekalb County, AL ZIPs: 35959 (31/100), 35983 (31/100), 35984 (28/100), 35954 (27/100), 35956 (27/100), 35961 (27/100). Also scored in Dekalb County, AL: 35963, 35967, 35968, 35971, 35974, 35978, 35981, 35986, 35988, 35989.
Across Dekalb County, AL's scored ZIPs: median home value $149,904, household income $53,161, 17.4% vacancy, 17.4% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 41.8.
Dekalb County, AL insurance distress 37/100 (#1,371 in the US); FEMA hazard 73/100 for Dekalb, AL; 2 federal disaster declarations in Dekalb County, AL since 2023 (2 hurricane); Dekalb, AL construction distress 63/100.
8 banks with 21 branches lend in Dekalb County, AL; Dekalb, AL weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 71/100 in Dekalb, AL.
Dekalb County, AL unemployment 3.2% (Dekalb, AL +0.1 pts, six months); 50 new housing units permitted in Dekalb County, AL over twelve months, Dekalb, AL down 21% from 63; Dekalb, AL home prices +12.4% a year (Dekalb, AL) over three years.
30,963 housing units in Dekalb County, AL; 6,030 Dekalb, AL renter households; 32% of Dekalb, AL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 14% (Dekalb, AL) half or more.
Dekalb County, AL ranks #1,192 nationally on the opportunity index (Dekalb, AL, among all ranked counties); Dekalb, AL scores 30.5/100 and Dekalb, AL sits #44 inside Alabama. Dekalb, AL is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Dekalb, AL's primary driver is vacancy, Dekalb, AL second driver construction; Dekalb, AL moved down 411 places. 14 short-sale listings across Dekalb, AL; 34 days on market observed in Dekalb, AL; 14.7% vacancy over 24 Dekalb, AL ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Dekalb County, AL. The non-metro area reading for Dekalb, AL: 1.6% ninety-plus days late; Dekalb, AL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.7% (Dekalb, AL, December 2025 data); Alabama overall 1.1%.
Dekalb County, AL has 6 watched banks; 6 Dekalb, AL banks sit in an elevated band. Dekalb, AL footprints: First Southern State Bank (4 branches, stress 65) in Dekalb, AL; First Stb Of Dekalb County (4 branches, stress 32) in Dekalb, AL; First Bank Of Alabama (3 branches, stress 71) in Dekalb, AL.
HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Dekalb County, AL with 117 units; 117 Dekalb, AL units are assisted, 1 Dekalb, AL properties under project-based Section 8.
4,782 of the 30,963 housing units in Dekalb, AL sit vacant. Dekalb County, AL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Dekalb, AL's one-to-four unit structures added 50 units in Dekalb County, AL.