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

Sumter County, AL, Alabama: 11 ZIP codes scored, Sumter County, AL averaging 15/100 (low, Sumter, AL), from 14 to 17. Sumter County, AL is in its expansion phase (Sumter, AL confidence 34/100): Sumter, AL home prices up 5.0% (Sumter, AL) over twelve months. Sumter County, AL lender headwind: 52/100.

Highest-scoring Sumter County, AL ZIPs: 35442 (17/100), 36912 (17/100), 36922 (16/100), 35459 (14/100), 35460 (14/100), 35464 (14/100). Also scored in Sumter County, AL: 35470, 35477, 36901, 36907, 36925.

Across Sumter County, AL's scored ZIPs: median home value $90,944, household income $39,146, 24.9% vacancy, 33.5% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 44.2.

Sumter County, AL insurance distress 44/100 (#1,259 in the US); FEMA hazard 87/100 for Sumter, AL; 3 federal disaster declarations in Sumter County, AL since 2023 (3 hurricane).

3 banks with 5 branches lend in Sumter County, AL; Sumter, AL weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 63/100 in Sumter, AL.

Sumter County, AL unemployment 5.5% (Sumter, AL +1.1 pts, six months); 6 new housing units permitted in Sumter County, AL over twelve months, Sumter, AL up 100% from 3.

6,356 housing units in Sumter County, AL; 1,448 Sumter, AL renter households; 38% of Sumter, AL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Sumter, AL) half or more.

Sumter County, AL ranks #2,503 nationally on the opportunity index (Sumter, AL, among all ranked counties); Sumter, AL scores 25.9/100 and Sumter, AL sits #66 inside Alabama. Sumter, AL is in the weak opportunity phase; Sumter, AL's primary driver is vacancy, Sumter, AL second driver bank institutional; Sumter, AL moved down 312 places. 52 days on market observed in Sumter, AL; 23.7% vacancy over 11 Sumter, AL ZIPs.

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

Sumter County, AL has 2 watched banks; 2 Sumter, AL banks sit in an elevated band. Sumter, AL footprints: Regions Bank (2 branches, stress 57) in Sumter, AL; West Alabama Bank&Trust (1 branch, stress 63) in Sumter, AL.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Sumter County, AL with 50 units; 50 Sumter, AL units are assisted, 1 Sumter, AL properties under project-based Section 8.

1,533 of the 6,356 housing units in Sumter, AL sit vacant. Sumter County, AL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Sumter, AL's one-to-four unit structures added 6 units in Sumter County, AL.