Hardee County, FL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Hardee County, FL, Florida: 4 ZIP codes scored, Hardee County, FL averaging 27/100 (low, Hardee, FL), from 24 to 34. Hardee County, FL is in its peak phase (Hardee, FL confidence 23/100): Hardee, FL home prices up 3.8% (Hardee, FL) over twelve months. Hardee County, FL lender headwind: 24/100.
Highest-scoring Hardee County, FL ZIPs: 33834 (34/100), 33865 (24/100), 33873 (24/100), 33890 (24/100).
Across Hardee County, FL's scored ZIPs: median home value $179,200, household income $56,828, 17.0% vacancy, 23.7% poverty, 67% owner-occupied, median age 41.6.
Hardee County, FL insurance distress 80/100 (#359 in the US); FEMA hazard 98/100 for Hardee, FL; 12 federal disaster declarations in Hardee County, FL since 2023 (6 hurricane); 1 Hardee, FL NFIP flood claims, $5K paid; Hardee, FL construction distress 14/100.
2 banks with 3 branches lend in Hardee County, FL; Hardee, FL weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 74/100 in Hardee, FL.
Hardee County, FL unemployment 5.5%; 130 new housing units permitted in Hardee County, FL over twelve months, Hardee, FL up 67% from 78; Hardee, FL home prices +12.3% a year (Hardee, FL) over three years.
9,942 housing units in Hardee County, FL; 2,327 Hardee, FL renter households; 52% of Hardee, FL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 33% (Hardee, FL) half or more.
Hardee County, FL ranks #359 nationally on the opportunity index (Hardee, FL, among all ranked counties); Hardee, FL scores 34.3/100 and Hardee, FL sits #46 inside Florida. Hardee, FL is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Hardee, FL's primary driver is vacancy, Hardee, FL second driver bank institutional; Hardee, FL moved up 422 places. 1 short-sale listings across Hardee, FL; 99 days on market observed in Hardee, FL; 17.3% vacancy over 4 Hardee, FL ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Hardee County, FL. The non-metro area reading for Hardee, FL: 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Hardee, FL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Hardee, FL, December 2025 data); Florida overall 1.2%.
Hardee County, FL has 2 watched banks; 2 Hardee, FL banks sit in an elevated band. Hardee, FL footprints: Crews Bank&Trust (2 branches, stress 50) in Hardee, FL; First Nb Of Wauchula (1 branch, stress 74) in Hardee, FL.
1,723 of the 9,942 housing units in Hardee, FL sit vacant. Hardee County, FL permitted 24 multifamily units in twelve months; Hardee, FL's one-to-four unit structures added 106 units in Hardee County, FL.