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

Winston County, AL, Alabama: 12 ZIP codes scored, Winston County, AL averaging 19/100 (low, Winston, AL), from 16 to 28. Winston County, AL is in its expansion phase (Winston, AL confidence 34/100): Winston, AL home prices up 5.0% (Winston, AL) over twelve months. Winston County, AL lender headwind: 21/100.

Highest-scoring Winston County, AL ZIPs: 35565 (28/100), 35503 (24/100), 35578 (22/100), 35053 (20/100), 35098 (20/100), 35179 (20/100). Also scored in Winston County, AL: 35540, 35541, 35553, 35572, 35575, 35577.

Across Winston County, AL's scored ZIPs: median home value $160,291, household income $54,289, 26.8% vacancy, 23.2% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 44.7.

Winston County, AL insurance distress 44/100 (#1,263 in the US); FEMA hazard 87/100 for Winston, AL; 3 federal disaster declarations in Winston County, AL since 2023 (3 hurricane); Winston, AL construction distress 7/100.

5 banks with 10 branches lend in Winston County, AL; Winston, AL weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 78/100 in Winston, AL.

Winston County, AL unemployment 3.9% (Winston, AL +0.6 pts, six months); 3 new housing units permitted in Winston County, AL over twelve months, Winston, AL up 200% from 1; Winston, AL home prices +10.3% a year (Winston, AL) over three years.

13,160 housing units in Winston County, AL; 2,180 Winston, AL renter households; 27% of Winston, AL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 12% (Winston, AL) half or more.

Winston County, AL ranks #520 nationally on the opportunity index (Winston, AL, among all ranked counties); Winston, AL scores 33.3/100 and Winston, AL sits #22 inside Alabama. Winston, AL is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Winston, AL's primary driver is vacancy, Winston, AL second driver bank institutional; Winston, AL moved up 493 places. 10 short-sale listings across Winston, AL; 50 days on market observed in Winston, AL; 25.4% vacancy over 12 Winston, AL ZIPs.

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

Winston County, AL has 4 watched banks; 4 Winston, AL banks sit in an elevated band. Winston, AL footprints: First National Bank (2 branches, stress 13) in Winston, AL; Pinnacle Bank (1 branch, stress 78) in Winston, AL; Premier Bank Of The South (1 branch, stress 74) in Winston, AL.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Winston County, AL with 24 units; 22 Winston, AL units are assisted, 1 Winston, AL properties under project-based Section 8.

3,740 of the 13,160 housing units in Winston, AL sit vacant. Winston County, AL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Winston, AL's one-to-four unit structures added 3 units in Winston County, AL.