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

Burke County, GA, Georgia: 9 ZIP codes scored, Burke County, GA averaging 24/100 (low, Burke, GA), from 19 to 30. Burke County, GA is in its neutral phase (Burke, GA confidence 27/100): Burke, GA home prices up 4.9% (Burke, GA) over twelve months. Burke County, GA lender headwind: 42/100.

Highest-scoring Burke County, GA ZIPs: 30815 (30/100), 30805 (29/100), 30441 (27/100), 30426 (24/100), 30456 (23/100), 30816 (23/100). Also scored in Burke County, GA: 30830, 30434, 30442.

Across Burke County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $124,025, household income $56,594, 21.2% vacancy, 20.5% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 42.9.

Burke County, GA insurance distress 86/100 (#198 in the US); FEMA hazard 97/100 for Burke, GA; 15 federal disaster declarations in Burke County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); 1 Burke, GA NFIP flood claims, $61K paid; Burke, GA construction distress 19/100.

3 banks with 6 branches lend in Burke County, GA; Burke, GA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 96/100 in Burke, GA.

Burke County, GA unemployment 4.7% (Burke, GA +0.1 pts, six months); 84 new housing units permitted in Burke County, GA over twelve months, Burke, GA up 40% from 60; Burke, GA home prices +6.4% a year (Burke, GA) over three years.

11,300 housing units in Burke County, GA; 2,480 Burke, GA renter households; 44% of Burke, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Burke, GA) half or more.

Burke County, GA ranks #95 nationally on the opportunity index (Burke, GA, among all ranked counties); Burke, GA scores 37.4/100 and Burke, GA sits #11 inside Georgia. Burke, GA is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Burke, GA's primary driver is vacancy, Burke, GA second driver bank institutional; Burke, GA moved up 52 places. 2 short-sale listings across Burke, GA; 89 days on market observed in Burke, GA; 15.3% vacancy over 9 Burke, GA ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Burke County, GA. The metro area reading for Burke, GA (Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC): 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Burke, GA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.7% (Burke, GA, December 2025 data); Georgia overall 1.3%.

Burke County, GA has 2 watched banks; 2 Burke, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Burke, GA footprints: Queensborough Nb&T Co (2 branches, stress 76) in Burke, GA; First Nb Of Waynesboro (2 branches, stress 11) in Burke, GA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Burke County, GA with 10 units; 10 Burke, GA units are assisted, 1 Burke, GA properties under project-based Section 8.

2,116 of the 11,300 housing units in Burke, GA sit vacant. Burke County, GA permitted 30 multifamily units in twelve months; Burke, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 54 units in Burke County, GA.