Baxter County, AR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Baxter County, AR, Arkansas: 12 ZIP codes scored, Baxter County, AR averaging 20/100 (low, Baxter, AR), from 19 to 23. Baxter County, AR is in its peak phase (Baxter, AR confidence 22/100): Baxter, AR home prices up 2.6% (Baxter, AR) over twelve months. Baxter County, AR lender headwind: 32/100.

Highest-scoring Baxter County, AR ZIPs: 72531 (23/100), 72519 (21/100), 72537 (19/100), 72544 (19/100), 72617 (19/100), 72623 (19/100). Also scored in Baxter County, AR: 72626, 72635, 72642, 72651, 72653, 72658.

Across Baxter County, AR's scored ZIPs: median home value $166,708, household income $48,435, 24.8% vacancy, 13.3% poverty, 82% owner-occupied, median age 52.2.

Baxter County, AR insurance distress 32/100 (#1,511 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Baxter, AR; 9 federal disaster declarations in Baxter County, AR since 2023; Baxter, AR construction distress 36/100.

10 banks with 23 branches lend in Baxter County, AR; Baxter, AR weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 85/100 in Baxter, AR.

Baxter County, AR unemployment 3.8% (Baxter, AR -1.0 pts, six months); 81 new housing units permitted in Baxter County, AR over twelve months, Baxter, AR up 14% from 71; Baxter, AR home prices +11.6% a year (Baxter, AR) over three years.

22,883 housing units in Baxter County, AR; 4,830 Baxter, AR renter households; 42% of Baxter, AR renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Baxter, AR) half or more.

Baxter County, AR ranks #1,402 nationally on the opportunity index (Baxter, AR, among all ranked counties); Baxter, AR scores 29.8/100 and Baxter, AR sits #60 inside Arkansas. Baxter, AR is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Baxter, AR's primary driver is vacancy, Baxter, AR second driver bank institutional; Baxter, AR moved up 360 places. 10 short-sale listings across Baxter, AR; 69 days on market observed in Baxter, AR; 14.5% vacancy over 12 Baxter, AR ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Baxter County, AR. The non-metro area reading for Baxter, AR: 1.5% ninety-plus days late; Baxter, AR's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Baxter, AR, December 2025 data); Arkansas overall 1.3%.

Baxter County, AR has 8 watched banks; 8 Baxter, AR banks sit in an elevated band. Baxter, AR footprints: First Security Bank (5 branches, stress 39) in Baxter, AR; Farmers&Merchants Bank (4 branches, stress 65) in Baxter, AR; Arvest Bank (3 branches, stress 85) in Baxter, AR.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Baxter County, AR with 90 units; 26 Baxter, AR units are assisted.

3,535 of the 22,883 housing units in Baxter, AR sit vacant. Baxter County, AR permitted 12 multifamily units in twelve months; Baxter, AR's one-to-four unit structures added 69 units in Baxter County, AR.