Hale County, AL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Hale County, AL, Alabama: 9 ZIP codes scored, Hale County, AL averaging 13/100 (minimal, Hale, AL), from 10 to 17. Hale County, AL is in its contraction phase (Hale, AL confidence 63/100): Hale, AL home prices down 1.6% (Hale, AL) over twelve months, 2.8% under their peak. Hale County, AL lender headwind: 93/100.

Highest-scoring Hale County, AL ZIPs: 35474 (17/100), 35441 (14/100), 36738 (14/100), 36742 (14/100), 36744 (14/100), 36776 (14/100). Also scored in Hale County, AL: 36765, 36786, 36756.

Across Hale County, AL's scored ZIPs: median home value $112,513, household income $48,229, 24.4% vacancy, 25.3% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 43.7.

Hale County, AL insurance distress 58/100 (#938 in the US); FEMA hazard 87/100 for Hale, AL; 3 federal disaster declarations in Hale County, AL since 2023 (3 hurricane); 1 Hale, AL NFIP flood claims; Hale, AL construction distress 3/100.

3 banks with 3 branches lend in Hale County, AL; Hale, AL weighted bank stress 77/100, highest 83/100 in Hale, AL.

Hale County, AL unemployment 5.0% (Hale, AL +0.1 pts, six months); 34 new housing units permitted in Hale County, AL over twelve months, Hale, AL up 386% from 7; Hale, AL home prices +13.6% a year (Hale, AL) over three years.

7,594 housing units in Hale County, AL; 1,274 Hale, AL renter households; 38% of Hale, AL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Hale, AL) half or more.

Hale County, AL ranks #1,017 nationally on the opportunity index (Hale, AL, among all ranked counties); Hale, AL scores 31.1/100 and Hale, AL sits #39 inside Alabama. Hale, AL is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Hale, AL's primary driver is vacancy, Hale, AL second driver bank institutional; Hale, AL moved down 113 places. 2 short-sale listings across Hale, AL; 73 days on market observed in Hale, AL; 19.6% vacancy over 9 Hale, AL ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Hale County, AL. The metro area reading for Hale, AL (Tuscaloosa, AL): 2.0% ninety-plus days late; Hale, AL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.1% (Hale, AL, December 2025 data); Alabama overall 1.1%.

Hale County, AL has 3 watched banks; 3 Hale, AL banks sit in an elevated band. Hale, AL footprints: Peoples Bank Of Greensboro (1 branch, stress 83) in Hale, AL; Bank Of Moundville (1 branch, stress 78) in Hale, AL; Citizens Bank (1 branch, stress 70) in Hale, AL.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Hale County, AL with 114 units; 114 Hale, AL units are assisted, 2 Hale, AL properties under project-based Section 8.

1,952 of the 7,594 housing units in Hale, AL sit vacant. Hale County, AL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Hale, AL's one-to-four unit structures added 34 units in Hale County, AL.