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

Yell County, AR, Arkansas: 14 ZIP codes scored, Yell County, AR averaging 13/100 (minimal, Yell, AR), from 10 to 21. Yell County, AR is in its peak phase (Yell, AR confidence 22/100): Yell, AR home prices up 2.6% (Yell, AR) over twelve months. Yell County, AR lender headwind: 0/100.

Highest-scoring Yell County, AR ZIPs: 72943 (21/100), 72025 (17/100), 72824 (12/100), 72827 (12/100), 72828 (12/100), 72829 (12/100). Also scored in Yell County, AR: 72833, 72834, 72838, 72842, 72853, 72857, 72860, 72841.

Across Yell County, AR's scored ZIPs: median home value $131,182, household income $59,515, 20.5% vacancy, 19.0% poverty, 64% owner-occupied, median age 45.6.

Yell County, AR insurance distress 25/100 (#1,900 in the US); FEMA hazard 50/100 for Yell, AR; 6 federal disaster declarations in Yell County, AR since 2023; Yell, AR construction distress 1/100.

3 banks with 9 branches lend in Yell County, AR; Yell, AR weighted bank stress 44/100, highest 56/100 in Yell, AR.

Yell County, AR unemployment 3.8% (Yell, AR -0.5 pts, six months); 14 new housing units permitted in Yell County, AR over twelve months, Yell, AR up 56% from 9; Yell, AR home prices +9.4% a year (Yell, AR) over three years.

9,312 housing units in Yell County, AR; 2,616 Yell, AR renter households; 26% of Yell, AR renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 7% (Yell, AR) half or more.

Yell County, AR ranks #2,176 nationally on the opportunity index (Yell, AR, among all ranked counties); Yell, AR scores 27.1/100 and Yell, AR sits #73 inside Arkansas. Yell, AR is in the weak opportunity phase; Yell, AR's primary driver is vacancy, Yell, AR second driver bank institutional; Yell, AR moved up 712 places. 6 short-sale listings across Yell, AR; 100 days on market observed in Yell, AR; 13.2% vacancy over 14 Yell, AR ZIPs.

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

Yell County, AR has 3 watched banks; 3 Yell, AR banks sit in an elevated band. Yell, AR footprints: Chambers Bank (7 branches, stress 45) in Yell, AR; First State Bank (1 branch, stress 56) in Yell, AR; Centennial Bank (1 branch, stress 23) in Yell, AR.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Yell County, AR with 82 units; 81 Yell, AR units are assisted, 3 Yell, AR properties under project-based Section 8.

989 of the 9,312 housing units in Yell, AR sit vacant. Yell County, AR permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Yell, AR's one-to-four unit structures added 14 units in Yell County, AR.