Ware County, GA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Ware County, GA, Georgia: 8 ZIP codes scored, Ware County, GA averaging 22/100 (low, Ware, GA), from 18 to 23. Ware County, GA is in its peak phase (Ware, GA confidence 18/100): Ware, GA home prices up 1.2% (Ware, GA) over twelve months. Ware County, GA lender headwind: 28/100.
Highest-scoring Ware County, GA ZIPs: 31554 (23/100), 31501 (22/100), 31503 (22/100), 31550 (22/100), 31552 (22/100), 31564 (22/100). Also scored in Ware County, GA: 31631, 31624.
Across Ware County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $97,750, household income $49,273, 20.1% vacancy, 21.1% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 42.0.
Ware County, GA insurance distress 87/100 (#169 in the US); FEMA hazard 97/100 for Ware, GA; 12 federal disaster declarations in Ware County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); 5 Ware, GA NFIP flood claims, $86K paid; Ware, GA construction distress 1/100.
7 banks with 8 branches lend in Ware County, GA; Ware, GA weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 74/100 in Ware, GA.
Ware County, GA unemployment 4.2% (Ware, GA -0.2 pts, six months); 100 new housing units permitted in Ware County, GA over twelve months, Ware, GA up 144% from 41; Ware, GA home prices +12.8% a year (Ware, GA) over three years.
15,943 housing units in Ware County, GA; 4,955 Ware, GA renter households; 47% of Ware, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Ware, GA) half or more.
Ware County, GA ranks #485 nationally on the opportunity index (Ware, GA, among all ranked counties); Ware, GA scores 33.5/100 and Ware, GA sits #30 inside Georgia. Ware, GA is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Ware, GA's primary driver is vacancy, Ware, GA second driver listings discount; Ware, GA moved up 1,446 places. 1 short-sale listings across Ware, GA; 66 days on market observed in Ware, GA; 18.2% vacancy over 8 Ware, GA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Ware County, GA. The non-metro area reading for Ware, GA: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Ware, GA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Ware, GA, December 2025 data); Georgia overall 1.3%.
Ware County, GA has 4 watched banks; 4 Ware, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Ware, GA footprints: Ameris Bank (2 branches, stress 51) in Ware, GA; First Southern Bank (1 branch, stress 74) in Ware, GA; Waycross Bank&Trust (1 branch, stress 70) in Ware, GA.
HUD lists 7 assisted multifamily properties in Ware County, GA with 200 units; 196 Ware, GA units are assisted, 2 Ware, GA properties under project-based Section 8.
2,986 of the 15,943 housing units in Ware, GA sit vacant. Ware County, GA permitted 56 multifamily units in twelve months; Ware, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 44 units in Ware County, GA.