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

Jefferson County, GA, Georgia: 9 ZIP codes scored, Jefferson County, GA averaging 20/100 (low, Jefferson, GA), from 15 to 23. Jefferson County, GA is in its peak phase (Jefferson, GA confidence 32/100): Jefferson, GA home prices up 2.5% (Jefferson, GA) over twelve months. Jefferson County, GA lender headwind: 67/100.

Highest-scoring Jefferson County, GA ZIPs: 30816 (23/100), 30434 (22/100), 30413 (21/100), 30477 (21/100), 30803 (21/100), 30818 (21/100). Also scored in Jefferson County, GA: 30833, 30823, 30810.

Across Jefferson County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $132,122, household income $47,949, 20.0% vacancy, 17.9% poverty, 73% owner-occupied, median age 43.6.

Jefferson County, GA insurance distress 80/100 (#369 in the US); FEMA hazard 96/100 for Jefferson, GA; 12 federal disaster declarations in Jefferson County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); 1 Jefferson, GA NFIP flood claims, $9K paid; Jefferson, GA construction distress 17/100.

3 banks with 7 branches lend in Jefferson County, GA; Jefferson, GA weighted bank stress 68/100, highest 76/100 in Jefferson, GA.

Jefferson County, GA unemployment 4.0% (Jefferson, GA -0.2 pts, six months); 24 new housing units permitted in Jefferson County, GA over twelve months, Jefferson, GA up 33% from 18; Jefferson, GA home prices +12.0% a year (Jefferson, GA) over three years.

7,172 housing units in Jefferson County, GA; 1,876 Jefferson, GA renter households; 31% of Jefferson, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Jefferson, GA) half or more.

Jefferson County, GA ranks #50 nationally on the opportunity index (Jefferson, GA, among all ranked counties); Jefferson, GA scores 38.5/100 and Jefferson, GA sits #5 inside Georgia. Jefferson, GA is in the overheated opportunity phase; Jefferson, GA's primary driver is vacancy, Jefferson, GA second driver bank institutional; Jefferson, GA moved down 36 places. 1 short-sale listings across Jefferson, GA; 27 days on market observed in Jefferson, GA; 19.5% vacancy over 9 Jefferson, GA ZIPs.

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

Jefferson County, GA has 2 watched banks; 2 Jefferson, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Jefferson, GA footprints: Queensborough Nb&T Co (4 branches, stress 76) in Jefferson, GA; First State Bank (2 branches, stress 56) in Jefferson, GA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Jefferson County, GA with 52 units.

1,421 of the 7,172 housing units in Jefferson, GA sit vacant. Jefferson County, GA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Jefferson, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 24 units in Jefferson County, GA.