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

Tift County, GA, Georgia: 10 ZIP codes scored, Tift County, GA averaging 25/100 (low, Tift, GA), from 16 to 31. Tift County, GA is in its peak phase (Tift, GA confidence 18/100): Tift, GA home prices up 1.2% (Tift, GA) over twelve months. Tift County, GA lender headwind: 24/100.

Highest-scoring Tift County, GA ZIPs: 31727 (31/100), 31793 (31/100), 31794 (30/100), 31775 (28/100), 31637 (24/100), 31733 (24/100). Also scored in Tift County, GA: 31749, 31795, 31790, 31714.

Across Tift County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $132,567, household income $51,601, 13.1% vacancy, 20.2% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 39.9.

Tift County, GA insurance distress 82/100 (#282 in the US); FEMA hazard 97/100 for Tift, GA; 12 federal disaster declarations in Tift County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); 6 Tift, GA NFIP flood claims, $5K paid; Tift, GA construction distress 73/100.

7 banks with 11 branches lend in Tift County, GA; Tift, GA weighted bank stress 52/100, highest 65/100 in Tift, GA.

Tift County, GA unemployment 3.3% (Tift, GA -0.1 pts, six months); 129 new housing units permitted in Tift County, GA over twelve months, Tift, GA down 31% from 187; Tift, GA home prices +10.3% a year (Tift, GA) over three years.

17,751 housing units in Tift County, GA; 6,058 Tift, GA renter households; 38% of Tift, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Tift, GA) half or more.

Tift County, GA ranks #1,117 nationally on the opportunity index (Tift, GA, among all ranked counties); Tift, GA scores 30.8/100 and Tift, GA sits #80 inside Georgia. Tift, GA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Tift, GA's primary driver is construction, Tift, GA second driver vacancy; Tift, GA moved up 126 places. 3 short-sale listings across Tift, GA; 91 days on market observed in Tift, GA; 12.1% vacancy over 10 Tift, GA ZIPs.

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

Tift County, GA has 4 watched banks; 4 Tift, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Tift, GA footprints: Ameris Bank (3 branches, stress 51) in Tift, GA; South Georgia Banking Co (3 branches, stress 44) in Tift, GA; Colony Bank (1 branch, stress 65) in Tift, GA.

HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Tift County, GA with 81 units; 38 Tift, GA units are assisted.

2,111 of the 17,751 housing units in Tift, GA sit vacant. Tift County, GA permitted 25 multifamily units in twelve months; Tift, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 104 units in Tift County, GA.