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

Wilkes County, GA, Georgia: 5 ZIP codes scored, Wilkes County, GA averaging 16/100 (low, Wilkes, GA), from 14 to 17. Wilkes County, GA is in its peak phase (Wilkes, GA confidence 32/100): Wilkes, GA home prices up 2.5% (Wilkes, GA) over twelve months. Wilkes County, GA lender headwind: 1/100.

Highest-scoring Wilkes County, GA ZIPs: 30660 (17/100), 30668 (16/100), 30673 (16/100), 30817 (16/100), 30631 (14/100).

Across Wilkes County, GA's scored ZIPs: median home value $119,200, household income $52,663, 30.8% vacancy, 15.5% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 44.8.

Wilkes County, GA insurance distress 48/100 (#1,152 in the US); FEMA hazard 94/100 for Wilkes, GA; 9 federal disaster declarations in Wilkes County, GA since 2023 (3 hurricane); Wilkes, GA construction distress 49/100.

3 banks with 4 branches lend in Wilkes County, GA; Wilkes, GA weighted bank stress 47/100, highest 57/100 in Wilkes, GA.

Wilkes County, GA unemployment 3.9% (Wilkes, GA -0.4 pts, six months); 35 new housing units permitted in Wilkes County, GA over twelve months, Wilkes, GA up 6% from 33; Wilkes, GA home prices +17.5% a year (Wilkes, GA) over three years.

5,254 housing units in Wilkes County, GA; 1,368 Wilkes, GA renter households; 27% of Wilkes, GA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 12% (Wilkes, GA) half or more.

Wilkes County, GA ranks #2,141 nationally on the opportunity index (Wilkes, GA, among all ranked counties); Wilkes, GA scores 27.2/100 and Wilkes, GA sits #142 inside Georgia. Wilkes, GA is in the weak opportunity phase; Wilkes, GA's primary driver is vacancy, Wilkes, GA second driver construction; Wilkes, GA moved down 694 places. 1 short-sale listings across Wilkes, GA; 1 days on market observed in Wilkes, GA; 23.7% vacancy over 5 Wilkes, GA ZIPs.

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

Wilkes County, GA has 2 watched banks; 2 Wilkes, GA banks sit in an elevated band. Wilkes, GA footprints: F&M Bank (2 branches, stress 52) in Wilkes, GA; Farmers State Bank (1 branch, stress 27) in Wilkes, GA.

1,121 of the 5,254 housing units in Wilkes, GA sit vacant. Wilkes County, GA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Wilkes, GA's one-to-four unit structures added 35 units in Wilkes County, GA.