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

Houston County, Georgia is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. DLRadar scores 12 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 19 up to 28/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 35/100.

Currently expansion, Houston County saw prices rise 5.9% year over year, a 55/100-confidence read. While the county appreciates, specific ZIPs still slip even as the headline looks strong.

Through Houston County's +5.9% YoY climb (55/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs where the scoring still flags pressure. A contained 35/100 bank headwind points the search to tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Leading Houston County on distress: 31005 (28/100), 31025 (28/100), 31028 (28/100), 31047 (28/100), 31088 (28/100), 31093 (28/100). Also scored across the county: 31098, 31069, 31091, 31036, 31008, 31030.

Profile-wise, the Houston County ZIPs on file run median home values around $212,482 (below the national figure), 68% owner-occupancy, residents with a median age around 38.3, 11% of households below the poverty line, incomes around $78,736, a 12% vacancy rate. Taken together, they signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 26/100 over 12 ZIPs means Houston County is a screen-by-ZIP market for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Houston County property carries owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

No county is too small to score: Houston County, Georgia runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Houston County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Georgia.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Houston County, Georgia's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Houston County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

The ZIP breakdown for Houston County leads with 31005 (28/100), 31025 (28/100), 31028 (28/100), 31047 (28/100), 31088 (28/100), 31093 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 31098, 31069, 31091, 31036, 31008, 31030 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Houston County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.