Berrien County, GA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Berrien County, GA, Georgia: 6 ZIP codes scored, Berrien County, GA averaging 24/100 (low, Berrien, GA), from 22 to 30. Berrien County, GA is in its peak phase (Berrien, GA confidence 32/100): Berrien, GA home prices up 2.5% (Berrien, GA) over twelve months. Berrien County, GA lender headwind: 96/100.

Highest-scoring Berrien County, GA ZIPs: 31794 (30/100), 31637 (24/100), 31645 (24/100), 31749 (23/100), 31622 (22/100), 31639 (22/100).

Across Berrien County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $126,300, household income $49,528, 13.4% vacancy, 22.0% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 39.1.

Berrien County, GA insurance distress 87/100 (#167 in the US); FEMA hazard 97/100 for Berrien, GA; 12 federal disaster declarations in Berrien County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); 3 Berrien, GA NFIP flood claims, $83K paid; Berrien, GA construction distress 28/100.

2 banks with 4 branches lend in Berrien County, GA; Berrien, GA weighted bank stress 80/100, highest 86/100 in Berrien, GA.

Berrien County, GA unemployment 3.0% (Berrien, GA -0.3 pts, six months); 136 new housing units permitted in Berrien County, GA over twelve months, Berrien, GA up 31% from 104; Berrien, GA home prices +10.4% a year (Berrien, GA) over three years.

8,099 housing units in Berrien County, GA; 2,131 Berrien, GA renter households; 33% of Berrien, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Berrien, GA) half or more.

Berrien County, GA ranks #768 nationally on the opportunity index (Berrien, GA, among all ranked counties); Berrien, GA scores 32.1/100 and Berrien, GA sits #50 inside Georgia. Berrien, GA is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Berrien, GA's primary driver is vacancy, Berrien, GA second driver bank institutional; Berrien, GA moved down 15 places. 2 short-sale listings across Berrien, GA; 99 days on market observed in Berrien, GA; 13.5% vacancy over 6 Berrien, GA ZIPs.

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

Berrien County, GA has 2 watched banks; 2 Berrien, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Berrien, GA footprints: Bank Of Alapaha (3 branches, stress 86) in Berrien, GA; Farmers&Merchants Bank (1 branch, stress 63) in Berrien, GA.

1,054 of the 8,099 housing units in Berrien, GA sit vacant. Berrien County, GA permitted 51 multifamily units in twelve months; Berrien, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 85 units in Berrien County, GA.