Lee County, AL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lee County, AL, Alabama: 15 ZIP codes scored, Lee County, AL averaging 23/100 (low, Lee, AL), from 16 to 26. Lee County, AL is in its peak phase (Lee, AL confidence 53/100): Lee, AL home prices up 0.9% (Lee, AL) over twelve months. Lee County, AL lender headwind: 44/100.
Highest-scoring Lee County, AL ZIPs: 36832 (26/100), 36849 (26/100), 36865 (26/100), 36874 (26/100), 36877 (26/100), 36870 (25/100). Also scored in Lee County, AL: 36801, 36804, 36867, 36830, 36854, 36879, 36850, 36852, 36866.
Across Lee County, AL's scored ZIPs: median home value $214,831, household income $57,685, 13.6% vacancy, 15.9% poverty, 69% owner-occupied, median age 37.0.
Lee County, AL insurance distress 83/100 (#264 in the US); FEMA hazard 87/100 for Lee, AL; 3 federal disaster declarations in Lee County, AL since 2023 (3 hurricane); 6 Lee, AL NFIP flood claims, $170K paid; Lee, AL construction distress 8/100.
21 banks with 40 branches lend in Lee County, AL; Lee, AL weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 87/100 in Lee, AL.
Lee County, AL unemployment 3.2% (Lee, AL +0.3 pts, six months); 2,680 new housing units permitted in Lee County, AL over twelve months, Lee, AL up 43% from 1,875; Lee, AL home prices +9.2% a year (Lee, AL) over three years.
79,619 housing units in Lee County, AL; 23,285 Lee, AL renter households; 51% of Lee, AL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 32% (Lee, AL) half or more.
Lee County, AL ranks #1,555 nationally on the opportunity index (Lee, AL, among all ranked counties); Lee, AL scores 29.2/100 and Lee, AL sits #57 inside Alabama. Lee, AL is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Lee, AL's primary driver is vacancy, Lee, AL second driver bank institutional; Lee, AL moved up 709 places. 55 short-sale listings across Lee, AL; 70 days on market observed in Lee, AL; 12.8% vacancy over 15 Lee, AL ZIPs.
0.5% of Lee County, AL mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Lee, AL's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.2% (CFPB county sample). Lee, AL's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Lee, AL peak since 2008 was 3.8% in September 2009; Alabama overall reads 1.1%.
Lee County, AL has 9 watched banks; 9 Lee, AL banks sit in an elevated band. Lee, AL footprints: Auburnbank (5 branches, stress 79) in Lee, AL; River Bank&Trust (3 branches, stress 65) in Lee, AL; Regions Bank (2 branches, stress 57) in Lee, AL.
HUD lists 11 assisted multifamily properties in Lee County, AL with 1,149 units; 221 Lee, AL units are assisted, 4 Lee, AL properties under project-based Section 8.
10,183 of the 79,619 housing units in Lee, AL sit vacant. Lee County, AL permitted 734 multifamily units in twelve months; Lee, AL's one-to-four unit structures added 1,946 units in Lee County, AL.