Newton County, GA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Newton County, GA, Georgia: 11 ZIP codes scored, Newton County, GA averaging 28/100 (low, Newton, GA), from 21 to 34. Newton County, GA is in its peak phase (Newton, GA confidence 18/100): Newton, GA home prices up 1.2% (Newton, GA) over twelve months. Newton County, GA lender headwind: 25/100.
Highest-scoring Newton County, GA ZIPs: 30016 (34/100), 30070 (34/100), 30014 (33/100), 30054 (33/100), 30052 (31/100), 30025 (30/100). Also scored in Newton County, GA: 30055, 30013, 30233, 30056, 31064.
Across Newton County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $285,645, household income $77,858, 6.5% vacancy, 8.9% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 40.2.
Newton County, GA insurance distress 90/100 (#107 in the US); FEMA hazard 96/100 for Newton, GA; 12 federal disaster declarations in Newton County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); 4 Newton, GA NFIP flood claims, $211K paid; Newton, GA construction distress 87/100.
9 banks with 9 branches lend in Newton County, GA; Newton, GA weighted bank stress 52/100, highest 67/100 in Newton, GA.
Newton County, GA unemployment 3.9% (Newton, GA -0.3 pts, six months); 395 new housing units permitted in Newton County, GA over twelve months, Newton, GA down 43% from 693; Newton, GA home prices +12.0% a year (Newton, GA) over three years.
43,619 housing units in Newton County, GA; 10,569 Newton, GA renter households; 51% of Newton, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 30% (Newton, GA) half or more.
Newton County, GA ranks #1,007 nationally on the opportunity index (Newton, GA, among all ranked counties); Newton, GA scores 31.1/100 and Newton, GA sits #68 inside Georgia. Newton, GA is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Newton, GA's primary driver is construction, Newton, GA second driver listings discount; Newton, GA moved up 1,411 places. 52 short-sale listings across Newton, GA; 49 days on market observed in Newton, GA; 5.0% vacancy over 11 Newton, GA ZIPs.
3.0% of Newton County, GA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Newton, GA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 6.4% (CFPB county sample). Newton, GA's ninety-day rate is up 1.7 points on twelve months earlier; the Newton, GA peak since 2008 was 10.4% in January 2010; Georgia overall reads 1.3%.
Newton County, GA has 3 watched banks; 3 Newton, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Newton, GA footprints: Affinity Bank National Assn (1 branch, stress 58) in Newton, GA; Vallant Bank (1 branch, stress 56) in Newton, GA; United Bank (1 branch, stress 33) in Newton, GA.
HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Newton County, GA with 534 units; 113 Newton, GA units are assisted, 1 Newton, GA properties under project-based Section 8.
2,416 of the 43,619 housing units in Newton, GA sit vacant. Newton County, GA permitted 58 multifamily units in twelve months; Newton, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 337 units in Newton County, GA.