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

Lee County, Alabama is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. 15 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 24/100 distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 17 to 28 out of 100. On bank and credit headwind, Lee County scores 44/100.

In its peak phase, Lee County home prices rose 0.9% across the last year, at 53/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +0.9% YoY and 53/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 44/100 points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Leading Lee County on distress: 36849 (28/100), 36865 (28/100), 36874 (28/100), 36877 (28/100), 36832 (27/100), 36870 (27/100). Other tracked Lee County ZIPs include 36804, 36867, 36801, 36830, 36854, 36879, 36852, 36850, 36866.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Lee County come in at home values averaging roughly $214,831, below the US, vacancy near 13.6%, an owner-occupied share of 69%, a median age of 37, household income averaging about $57,685, below the national median, poverty running near 15.9%. Taken together, they shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 24/100 over 15 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Lee County property carries owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

No county is too small to score: Lee County, Alabama runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Lee County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Alabama.

Lee County, Alabama is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Lee County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. These Lee County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

Drilling in, Lee County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 36849 (28/100), 36865 (28/100), 36874 (28/100), 36877 (28/100), 36832 (27/100), 36870 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 36804, 36867, 36801, 36830, 36854, 36879, 36852, 36850 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

The Lee County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.