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

Pickens County, AL, Alabama: 8 ZIP codes scored, Pickens County, AL averaging 19/100 (low, Pickens, AL), from 14 to 25. Pickens County, AL is in its contraction phase (Pickens, AL confidence 63/100): Pickens, AL home prices down 1.6% (Pickens, AL) over twelve months, 2.8% under their peak. Pickens County, AL lender headwind: 59/100.

Highest-scoring Pickens County, AL ZIPs: 35466 (25/100), 35555 (20/100), 35447 (19/100), 35461 (19/100), 35481 (19/100), 35442 (18/100). Also scored in Pickens County, AL: 35574, 35576.

Across Pickens County, AL's scored ZIPs: median home value $120,913, household income $48,558, 23.1% vacancy, 18.7% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 44.4.

Pickens County, AL insurance distress 78/100 (#406 in the US); FEMA hazard 87/100 for Pickens, AL; 3 federal disaster declarations in Pickens County, AL since 2023 (3 hurricane); 1 Pickens, AL NFIP flood claims, $40K paid; Pickens, AL construction distress 8/100.

2 banks with 9 branches lend in Pickens County, AL; Pickens, AL weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 63/100 in Pickens, AL.

Pickens County, AL unemployment 4.7% (Pickens, AL +0.8 pts, six months); 5 new housing units permitted in Pickens County, AL over twelve months, Pickens, AL up 150% from 2; Pickens, AL home prices +9.6% a year (Pickens, AL) over three years.

8,729 housing units in Pickens County, AL; 1,706 Pickens, AL renter households; 37% of Pickens, AL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Pickens, AL) half or more.

Pickens County, AL ranks #1,378 nationally on the opportunity index (Pickens, AL, among all ranked counties); Pickens, AL scores 29.8/100 and Pickens, AL sits #53 inside Alabama. Pickens, AL is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Pickens, AL's primary driver is vacancy, Pickens, AL second driver bank institutional; Pickens, AL moved down 754 places. 39 days on market observed in Pickens, AL; 21.6% vacancy over 8 Pickens, AL ZIPs.

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

Pickens County, AL has 1 watched bank; 1 Pickens, AL bank sits in an elevated band. Pickens, AL footprints: West Alabama Bank&Trust (6 branches, stress 63) in Pickens, AL.

1,965 of the 8,729 housing units in Pickens, AL sit vacant. Pickens County, AL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Pickens, AL's one-to-four unit structures added 5 units in Pickens County, AL.