Georgia Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

DLRadar reads Georgia from the parcel up: foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records rolled into one score per ZIP. Georgia leans peak overall, with average prices up 1.9% YoY. Georgia breaks into 159 scored counties spanning 751 ZIPs, averaging 25/100. Phase-wise, Georgia counties run 141 peak, 8 neutral, 6 expansion, 4 contraction.

Distress concentrates in Echols County, Glascock County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Stewart County; open any for county- and ZIP-level detail.

The most-distressed Georgia ZIP codes are 31520 (53/100), 31522 (53/100), 31523 (53/100), 31524 (53/100), 31525 (53/100).

The Georgia breakdown, county by county:

In Appling County, peak: prices up 2.5%. Atkinson County sits in peak, appreciation near 1.2%, a 55/100 lender reading. Bacon County sits in peak, homes +2.5% YoY. Baker County: peak, up 2.5% on the year, bank stress 22/100. Baldwin County is in its peak phase, up 1.2% on the year. Banks County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 2.5%. Barrow County — peak, homes +1.2% YoY.

In Bartow County, peak: appreciation near 1.2%. Ben Hill County reads peak — appreciation near 1.2%, bank stress 40/100. In Berrien County, peak: values rising 2.5%, bank stress 96/100. Bibb County: peak, appreciation near 1.0%, a 36/100 lender reading. Bleckley County is in its peak phase, up 2.5% on the year. Brantley County is contraction (prices down 4.4%, 8.6% off peak, a 17/100 lender reading). DLRadar reads Brooks County as expansion — homes +8.0% YoY, bank stress 51/100.

Bryan County: peak, prices up 2.4%, lender pressure 50/100. In Bulloch County, peak: prices up 1.2%, bank stress 30/100. Burke County is neutral (homes +4.9% YoY, bank stress 42/100). Butts County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 1.2%. Calhoun County sits in peak, prices up 2.5%, bank stress 17/100. DLRadar reads Camden County as peak — prices up 1.2%, bank stress 23/100. Candler County sits in peak, prices up 2.5%, lender pressure 26/100.

Carroll County is peak (up 1.2% on the year, lender pressure 20/100). Catoosa County reads peak — values rising 1.1%, headwind 34/100. DLRadar reads Charlton County as peak — appreciation near 2.5%. DLRadar reads Chatham County as peak — values rising 2.4%, a 39/100 lender reading. Chattahoochee County is in its peak phase, values rising 1.6%, down 1.6% from its high, headwind 52/100. Chattooga County: peak, prices up 1.2%, lender pressure 36/100. Cherokee County is peak (homes +1.2% YoY, a 37/100 lender reading).

In Clarke County, peak: appreciation near 0.4%, lender pressure 35/100. Clay County: peak, homes +2.5% YoY. Clayton County sits in peak, appreciation near 1.2%, headwind 47/100. Clinch County is peak (values rising 2.5%, headwind 35/100). Cobb County is in its peak phase, up 1.2% on the year, lender pressure 41/100. DLRadar reads Coffee County as peak — appreciation near 1.2%, a 20/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Colquitt County as peak — homes +1.2% YoY, bank stress 22/100.

Columbia County is in its neutral phase, appreciation near 4.9%, a 50/100 lender reading. In Cook County, peak: homes +2.5% YoY. Coweta County sits in peak, prices up 1.2%, bank stress 19/100. In Crawford County, peak: up 1.0% on the year. Crisp County is peak (appreciation near 1.2%, headwind 30/100). In Dade County, peak: appreciation near 1.1%. Dawson County is peak (values rising 1.2%, headwind 31/100).

Decatur County is peak (appreciation near 1.2%, lender pressure 30/100). DLRadar reads Dekalb County as peak — appreciation near 1.2%, headwind 40/100. Dodge County is in its peak phase, up 2.5% on the year, lender pressure 16/100. DLRadar reads Dooly County as peak — homes +2.5% YoY, headwind 42/100. Dougherty County is in its peak phase, values rising 0.6%, a 20/100 lender reading. Douglas County: peak, up 1.2% on the year, a 27/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Early County as peak — up 2.5% on the year.

In Echols County, expansion: prices up 8.0%, bank stress 100/100.

Georgia opportunity phases: 62 early_signal, 30 watchlist, 24 peak_opportunity, 23 weak, 11 strong_buy, 9 overheated; Georgia average index 31.3. Best-ranked Georgia counties: Brantley #14 (41.6), vacancy; Hancock #24 (39.8), vacancy; White #31 (39.3), vacancy in Georgia; Taliaferro #33 (39.2), vacancy; Jefferson #41 (38.8), vacancy; Glynn #44 (38.7), vacancy.

Georgia mortgages ninety-plus days late: 1.3%; Georgia thirty-to-eighty-nine days late 2.8% (December 2025); 19 Georgia counties sit in the CFPB sample; highest Georgia county readings: Clayton 3.6%, Newton 3.0%, Henry 2.4%, Douglas 1.7%, Paulding 1.6%.

Georgia county unemployment averages 3.7% across 159 counties; Georgia permitted 60,996 housing units in twelve months (17,489 multifamily); 467,469 of 4,541,835 Georgia housing units are vacant; 1,388,484 Georgia renter households, 38.6% spending 30%+ of income on rent.

Georgia ZIP price-cycle phases: 2,114 peak, 361 contraction, 321 expansion, 175 recovery, 111 neutral.