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

Wayne County, GA, Georgia: 7 ZIP codes scored, Wayne County, GA averaging 24/100 (low, Wayne, GA), from 22 to 34. Wayne County, GA is in its peak phase (Wayne, GA confidence 18/100): Wayne, GA home prices up 1.2% (Wayne, GA) over twelve months. Wayne County, GA lender headwind: 38/100.

Highest-scoring Wayne County, GA ZIPs: 31543 (34/100), 31545 (23/100), 31546 (23/100), 31555 (23/100), 31560 (23/100), 31599 (23/100). Also scored in Wayne County, GA: 31518.

Across Wayne County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $148,500, household income $51,431, 15.3% vacancy, 19.6% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 39.0.

Wayne County, GA insurance distress 49/100 (#1,105 in the US); FEMA hazard 97/100 for Wayne, GA; 12 federal disaster declarations in Wayne County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); Wayne, GA construction distress 60/100.

5 banks with 5 branches lend in Wayne County, GA; Wayne, GA weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 74/100 in Wayne, GA.

Wayne County, GA unemployment 3.3% (Wayne, GA -0.2 pts, six months); 101 new housing units permitted in Wayne County, GA over twelve months, Wayne, GA down 11% from 114; Wayne, GA home prices +10.6% a year (Wayne, GA) over three years.

12,704 housing units in Wayne County, GA; 3,765 Wayne, GA renter households; 35% of Wayne, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Wayne, GA) half or more.

Wayne County, GA ranks #1,445 nationally on the opportunity index (Wayne, GA, among all ranked counties); Wayne, GA scores 29.6/100 and Wayne, GA sits #103 inside Georgia. Wayne, GA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Wayne, GA's primary driver is vacancy, Wayne, GA second driver construction; Wayne, GA moved up 465 places. 88 days on market observed in Wayne, GA; 12.8% vacancy over 7 Wayne, GA ZIPs.

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

Wayne County, GA has 2 watched banks; 2 Wayne, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Wayne, GA footprints: First Southern Bank (1 branch, stress 74) in Wayne, GA; Primesouth Bank (1 branch, stress 49) in Wayne, GA.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Wayne County, GA with 102 units; 100 Wayne, GA units are assisted, 1 Wayne, GA properties under project-based Section 8.

1,643 of the 12,704 housing units in Wayne, GA sit vacant. Wayne County, GA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Wayne, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 101 units in Wayne County, GA.