Marion County, FL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Marion County, FL, Florida: 34 ZIP codes scored, Marion County, FL averaging 36/100 (moderate, Marion, FL), from 33 to 41. Marion County, FL is in its recovery phase (Marion, FL confidence 17/100): Marion, FL home prices up 1.9% (Marion, FL) over twelve months, 1.2% under their peak. Marion County, FL lender headwind: 32/100.
Highest-scoring Marion County, FL ZIPs: 34481 (41/100), 32113 (36/100), 32133 (36/100), 32179 (36/100), 32182 (36/100), 32192 (36/100). Also scored in Marion County, FL: 32195, 32617, 32634, 32664, 32681, 32686, 32702, 32784, 34420, 34432.
Across Marion County, FL's scored ZIPs: median home value $239,013, household income $61,177, 14.6% vacancy, 15.4% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 49.9.
Marion County, FL insurance distress 87/100 (#176 in the US); FEMA hazard 99/100 for Marion, FL; 18 federal disaster declarations in Marion County, FL since 2023 (9 hurricane); 12 Marion, FL NFIP flood claims, $31K paid; Marion, FL construction distress 62/100.
21 banks with 68 branches lend in Marion County, FL; Marion, FL weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 94/100 in Marion, FL.
Marion County, FL unemployment 5.7% (Marion, FL -0.4 pts, six months); 5,546 new housing units permitted in Marion County, FL over twelve months, Marion, FL down 13% from 6,361; Marion, FL home prices +11.5% a year (Marion, FL) over three years.
188,277 housing units in Marion County, FL; 37,263 Marion, FL renter households; 47% of Marion, FL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Marion, FL) half or more.
Marion County, FL ranks #330 nationally on the opportunity index (Marion, FL, among all ranked counties); Marion, FL scores 34.4/100 and Marion, FL sits #36 inside Florida. Marion, FL is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Marion, FL's primary driver is construction, Marion, FL second driver vacancy; Marion, FL moved up 350 places. 169 short-sale listings across Marion, FL; 98 days on market observed in Marion, FL; 12.1% vacancy over 34 Marion, FL ZIPs.
1.7% of Marion County, FL mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Marion, FL's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.8% (CFPB county sample). Marion, FL's ninety-day rate is up 1.0 points on twelve months earlier; the Marion, FL peak since 2008 was 9.0% in June 2012; Florida overall reads 1.2%.
Marion County, FL has 8 watched banks; 8 Marion, FL banks sit in an elevated band. Marion, FL footprints: Seacoast National Bank (5 branches, stress 58) in Marion, FL; Southstate Bank Na (4 branches, stress 48) in Marion, FL; First Federal Bank (3 branches, stress 65) in Marion, FL.
HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Marion County, FL with 479 units; 453 Marion, FL units are assisted, 3 Marion, FL properties under project-based Section 8.
23,396 of the 188,277 housing units in Marion, FL sit vacant. Marion County, FL permitted 52 multifamily units in twelve months; Marion, FL's one-to-four unit structures added 5,494 units in Marion County, FL.