Craighead County, AR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Craighead County, AR, Arkansas: 17 ZIP codes scored, Craighead County, AR averaging 31/100 (moderate, Craighead, AR), from 28 to 31. Craighead County, AR is in its contraction phase (Craighead, AR confidence 34/100): Craighead, AR home prices down 0.6% (Craighead, AR) over twelve months, 2.6% under their peak. Craighead County, AR lender headwind: 42/100.
Highest-scoring Craighead County, AR ZIPs: 72401 (31/100), 72404 (31/100), 72405 (31/100), 72411 (31/100), 72414 (31/100), 72416 (31/100). Also scored in Craighead County, AR: 72417, 72419, 72421, 72427, 72437, 72438, 72447, 72467, 72450, 72476.
Across Craighead County, AR's scored ZIPs: median home value $139,406, household income $58,013, 17.8% vacancy, 24.0% poverty, 63% owner-occupied, median age 36.3.
Craighead County, AR insurance distress 75/100 (#505 in the US); FEMA hazard 72/100 for Craighead, AR; 9 federal disaster declarations in Craighead County, AR since 2023 (3 flood); 7 Craighead, AR NFIP flood claims, $183K paid; Craighead, AR construction distress 56/100.
24 banks with 52 branches lend in Craighead County, AR; Craighead, AR weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 89/100 in Craighead, AR.
Craighead County, AR unemployment 3.5% (Craighead, AR -0.6 pts, six months); 917 new housing units permitted in Craighead County, AR over twelve months, Craighead, AR down 6% from 971; Craighead, AR home prices +7.0% a year (Craighead, AR) over three years.
48,885 housing units in Craighead County, AR; 17,689 Craighead, AR renter households; 47% of Craighead, AR renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Craighead, AR) half or more.
Craighead County, AR ranks #1,819 nationally on the opportunity index (Craighead, AR, among all ranked counties); Craighead, AR scores 28.4/100 and Craighead, AR sits #70 inside Arkansas. Craighead, AR is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Craighead, AR's primary driver is bank institutional, Craighead, AR second driver construction; Craighead, AR moved down 78 places. 7 short-sale listings across Craighead, AR; 108 days on market observed in Craighead, AR; 10.0% vacancy over 17 Craighead, AR ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Craighead County, AR. The non-metro area reading for Craighead, AR: 1.5% ninety-plus days late; Craighead, AR's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Craighead, AR, December 2025 data); Arkansas overall 1.3%.
Craighead County, AR has 16 watched banks; 16 Craighead, AR banks sit in an elevated band. Craighead, AR footprints: Centennial Bank (7 branches, stress 23) in Craighead, AR; First Community Bank (6 branches, stress 72) in Craighead, AR; Arvest Bank (3 branches, stress 85) in Craighead, AR.
HUD lists 18 assisted multifamily properties in Craighead County, AR with 943 units; 354 Craighead, AR units are assisted, 4 Craighead, AR properties under project-based Section 8.
4,448 of the 48,885 housing units in Craighead, AR sit vacant. Craighead County, AR permitted 263 multifamily units in twelve months; Craighead, AR's one-to-four unit structures added 654 units in Craighead County, AR.