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

Lamar County, AL, Alabama: 9 ZIP codes scored, Lamar County, AL averaging 18/100 (low, Lamar, AL), from 12 to 27. Lamar County, AL is in its expansion phase (Lamar, AL confidence 34/100): Lamar, AL home prices up 5.0% (Lamar, AL) over twelve months. Lamar County, AL lender headwind: 0/100.

Highest-scoring Lamar County, AL ZIPs: 35570 (27/100), 35563 (26/100), 35552 (25/100), 35555 (19/100), 35574 (14/100), 35576 (13/100). Also scored in Lamar County, AL: 35544, 35586, 35592.

Across Lamar County, AL's scored ZIPs: median home value $111,950, household income $52,332, 26.5% vacancy, 14.0% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 43.8.

Lamar County, AL insurance distress 44/100 (#1,251 in the US); FEMA hazard 87/100 for Lamar, AL; 3 federal disaster declarations in Lamar County, AL since 2023 (3 hurricane); Lamar, AL construction distress 10/100.

4 banks with 5 branches lend in Lamar County, AL; Lamar, AL weighted bank stress 43/100, highest 63/100 in Lamar, AL.

Lamar County, AL unemployment 3.6% (Lamar, AL -0.3 pts, six months).

7,123 housing units in Lamar County, AL; 1,295 Lamar, AL renter households; 41% of Lamar, AL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Lamar, AL) half or more.

Lamar County, AL ranks #1,280 nationally on the opportunity index (Lamar, AL, among all ranked counties); Lamar, AL scores 30.2/100 and Lamar, AL sits #49 inside Alabama. Lamar, AL is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Lamar, AL's primary driver is vacancy, Lamar, AL second driver bank institutional; Lamar, AL moved up 552 places. 1 short-sale listings across Lamar, AL; 102 days on market observed in Lamar, AL; 29.4% vacancy over 9 Lamar, AL ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Lamar County, AL. The non-metro area reading for Lamar, AL: 1.6% ninety-plus days late; Lamar, AL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.7% (Lamar, AL, December 2025 data); Alabama overall 1.1%.

Lamar County, AL has 4 watched banks; 4 Lamar, AL banks sit in an elevated band. Lamar, AL footprints: Bank Of Vernon (2 branches, stress 45) in Lamar, AL; West Alabama Bank&Trust (1 branch, stress 63) in Lamar, AL; First Stb Of The South Inc (1 branch, stress 51) in Lamar, AL.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Lamar County, AL with 13 units; 12 Lamar, AL units are assisted.

2,037 of the 7,123 housing units in Lamar, AL sit vacant.