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

Lamar County, GA, Georgia: 9 ZIP codes scored, Lamar County, GA averaging 19/100 (low, Lamar, GA), from 14 to 23. Lamar County, GA is in its peak phase (Lamar, GA confidence 32/100): Lamar, GA home prices up 2.5% (Lamar, GA) over twelve months. Lamar County, GA lender headwind: 0/100.

Highest-scoring Lamar County, GA ZIPs: 30233 (23/100), 30204 (22/100), 30257 (22/100), 30224 (21/100), 31016 (20/100), 30285 (18/100). Also scored in Lamar County, GA: 31097, 30256, 30295.

Across Lamar County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $229,900, household income $68,385, 11.2% vacancy, 11.6% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 41.0.

Lamar County, GA insurance distress 87/100 (#168 in the US); FEMA hazard 94/100 for Lamar, GA; 9 federal disaster declarations in Lamar County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); 2 Lamar, GA NFIP flood claims, $133K paid; Lamar, GA construction distress 51/100.

1 bank with 2 branches lend in Lamar County, GA; Lamar, GA weighted bank stress 33/100.

Lamar County, GA unemployment 4.3% (Lamar, GA -0.1 pts, six months); 140 new housing units permitted in Lamar County, GA over twelve months, Lamar, GA down 10% from 155; Lamar, GA home prices +13.0% a year (Lamar, GA) over three years.

7,866 housing units in Lamar County, GA; 1,664 Lamar, GA renter households; 29% of Lamar, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Lamar, GA) half or more.

Lamar County, GA ranks #922 nationally on the opportunity index (Lamar, GA, among all ranked counties); Lamar, GA scores 31.5/100 and Lamar, GA sits #65 inside Georgia. Lamar, GA is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Lamar, GA's primary driver is construction, Lamar, GA second driver bank institutional; Lamar, GA moved up 840 places. 25 short-sale listings across Lamar, GA; 38 days on market observed in Lamar, GA; 9.6% vacancy over 9 Lamar, GA ZIPs.

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

Lamar County, GA has 1 watched bank; 1 Lamar, GA bank sits in an elevated band. Lamar, GA footprints: United Bank (2 branches, stress 33) in Lamar, GA.

733 of the 7,866 housing units in Lamar, GA sit vacant. Lamar County, GA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lamar, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 140 units in Lamar County, GA.