Dekalb County, GA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Dekalb County, GA, Georgia: 36 ZIP codes scored, Dekalb County, GA averaging 32/100 (moderate, Dekalb, GA), from 24 to 36. Dekalb County, GA is in its peak phase (Dekalb, GA confidence 18/100): Dekalb, GA home prices up 1.2% (Dekalb, GA) over twelve months. Dekalb County, GA lender headwind: 40/100.
Highest-scoring Dekalb County, GA ZIPs: 30315 (36/100), 30350 (36/100), 30039 (35/100), 30087 (35/100), 30306 (35/100), 30324 (35/100). Also scored in Dekalb County, GA: 30084, 30307, 30316, 30340, 30360, 30288, 30294, 30319, 30002, 30021.
Across Dekalb County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $414,334, household income $82,881, 11.8% vacancy, 13.2% poverty, 57% owner-occupied, median age 36.5.
Dekalb County, GA insurance distress 90/100 (#100 in the US); FEMA hazard 90/100 for Dekalb, GA; 9 federal disaster declarations in Dekalb County, GA since 2023; 109 Dekalb, GA NFIP flood claims, $2.8M paid; Dekalb, GA construction distress 33/100.
24 banks with 112 branches lend in Dekalb County, GA; Dekalb, GA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 71/100 in Dekalb, GA.
Dekalb County, GA unemployment 3.5% (Dekalb, GA -0.3 pts, six months); 1,141 new housing units permitted in Dekalb County, GA over twelve months, Dekalb, GA up 23% from 931; Dekalb, GA home prices +8.4% a year (Dekalb, GA) over three years.
330,830 housing units in Dekalb County, GA; 118,144 Dekalb, GA renter households; 55% of Dekalb, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 29% (Dekalb, GA) half or more.
Dekalb County, GA ranks #796 nationally on the opportunity index (Dekalb, GA, among all ranked counties); Dekalb, GA scores 32.0/100 and Dekalb, GA sits #54 inside Georgia. Dekalb, GA is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Dekalb, GA's primary driver is vacancy, Dekalb, GA second driver bank institutional; Dekalb, GA moved up 651 places. 245 short-sale listings across Dekalb, GA; 57 days on market observed in Dekalb, GA; 12.6% vacancy over 36 Dekalb, GA ZIPs.
1.1% of Dekalb County, GA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Dekalb, GA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.9% (CFPB county sample). Dekalb, GA's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Dekalb, GA peak since 2008 was 7.8% in February 2010; Georgia overall reads 1.3%.
Dekalb County, GA has 5 watched banks; 5 Dekalb, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Dekalb, GA footprints: Ameris Bank (5 branches, stress 51) in Dekalb, GA; Citizens Trust Bank (2 branches, stress 50) in Dekalb, GA; Metro City Bank (2 branches, stress 46) in Dekalb, GA.
HUD lists 30 assisted multifamily properties in Dekalb County, GA with 3,462 units; 920 Dekalb, GA units are assisted, 5 Dekalb, GA properties under project-based Section 8.
43,591 of the 330,830 housing units in Dekalb, GA sit vacant. Dekalb County, GA permitted 424 multifamily units in twelve months; Dekalb, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 717 units in Dekalb County, GA.