Louisiana Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Louisiana is scored county by county and ZIP by ZIP in DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Louisiana leans peak overall, with average prices up 1.9% YoY. Phase-wise, Louisiana counties run 29 peak, 20 contraction, 10 expansion, 5 recovery. Coverage spans 64 Louisiana counties and 539 ZIPs, a 30/100 mean composite.

Distress concentrates in St. Helena County, Bossier County, Caldwell County, Vernon County, Caddo County; open any for county- and ZIP-level detail.

At the ZIP level, the highest distress in Louisiana shows up in 70725 (39/100), 70734 (39/100), 70737 (39/100), 70769 (39/100), 70774 (39/100).

Here is the county-by-county distress and phase picture for Louisiana.

In Acadia County, expansion: values rising 5.6%, a 42/100 lender reading. Allen County sits in contraction, little price movement, 2.3% off peak, headwind 33/100. Ascension County is peak (appreciation near 1.6%, a 27/100 lender reading). Assumption County: peak, homes +1.6% YoY, headwind 38/100. Avoyelles County sits in contraction, prices flat, 2.3% off peak, bank stress 54/100. Beauregard County: peak, up 2.2% on the year, lender pressure 45/100. DLRadar reads Bienville County as contraction — little price movement, 2.3% off peak, headwind 17/100.

Bossier County: expansion, homes +5.4% YoY, headwind 74/100. Caddo County is in its expansion phase, appreciation near 5.4%, lender pressure 61/100. Calcasieu County: expansion, homes +8.0% YoY, headwind 54/100. DLRadar reads Caldwell County as contraction — prices flat, 2.3% below peak, bank stress 66/100. Cameron County is expansion (homes +8.0% YoY, lender pressure 19/100). Catahoula County: contraction, prices flat, 2.3% below peak. Claiborne County is in its contraction phase, little price movement, 2.3% below peak, a 43/100 lender reading.

DLRadar reads Concordia County as peak — homes +2.2% YoY, bank stress 48/100. De Soto County sits in expansion, prices up 5.4%, lender pressure 56/100. East Baton Rouge County: peak, up 1.6% on the year, headwind 41/100. East Carroll County — contraction, little price movement, 2.3% below peak, bank stress 17/100. East Feliciana County — peak, homes +1.6% YoY, bank stress 60/100. Evangeline County is contraction (little price movement, down 2.3% from its high, headwind 35/100). Franklin County is in its contraction phase, prices flat, down 2.3% from its high, headwind 46/100.

DLRadar reads Grant County as peak — homes +2.2% YoY, a 49/100 lender reading. Iberia County reads peak — values rising 2.2%, lender pressure 28/100. Iberville County is peak (appreciation near 1.6%, a 49/100 lender reading). In Jackson County, contraction: prices flat, 2.3% below peak. Jefferson County — peak, up 1.7% on the year, lender pressure 41/100. Jefferson Davis County is in its expansion phase, appreciation near 8.0%, headwind 38/100. In Lafayette County, expansion: up 5.6% on the year, bank stress 30/100.

Lafourche County sits in contraction, homes -1.0% YoY, 1.8% below peak, bank stress 30/100. Lasalle County sits in contraction, prices flat, 2.3% off peak, a 27/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Lincoln County as peak — appreciation near 2.2%, a 47/100 lender reading. Livingston County: peak, values rising 1.6%, a 58/100 lender reading. Madison County sits in contraction, little price movement, down 2.3% from its high, headwind 42/100. In Morehouse County, recovery: homes +2.4% YoY, 1.7% below peak, a 45/100 lender reading. Natchitoches County sits in peak, values rising 2.2%, lender pressure 31/100.

Orleans County is in its peak phase, appreciation near 1.7%, a 43/100 lender reading. Ouachita County — recovery, values rising 2.4%, down 1.7% from its high, a 55/100 lender reading. Plaquemines County reads peak — prices up 1.7%, headwind 53/100. Pointe Coupee County sits in peak, homes +1.6% YoY, a 19/100 lender reading. Rapides County sits in peak, up 2.2% on the year, bank stress 34/100. Red River County is contraction (prices flat, down 2.3% from its high, bank stress 49/100). Richland County: recovery, prices up 2.4%, down 1.7% from its high, a 45/100 lender reading.

Sabine County — contraction, values about even, 2.3% below peak, bank stress 15/100. St. Bernard County reads peak — up 1.7% on the year, lender pressure 52/100. St. Charles County reads peak — homes +1.7% YoY, a 35/100 lender reading. In St. Helena County, peak: up 1.6% on the year, headwind 100/100. St. James County reads peak — homes +1.7% YoY, bank stress 39/100. In St. John The Baptist County, peak: values rising 1.7%, lender pressure 27/100. St. Landry County — peak, prices up 2.2%, headwind 40/100.

In St. Martin County, expansion: prices up 5.6%.

Louisiana opportunity phases: 26 peak_opportunity, 15 strong_buy, 8 early_signal, 7 watchlist, 6 overheated, 2 weak; Louisiana average index 34.2. Best-ranked Louisiana counties: Franklin #12 (42.7), vacancy; St. John The Baptist #13 (42.6), construction; Avoyelles #19 (40.9), vacancy in Louisiana; Sabine #24 (40.2), vacancy; St. James #35 (39.1), vacancy; Cameron #46 (38.7), vacancy.

Louisiana mortgages ninety-plus days late: 2.1%; Louisiana thirty-to-eighty-nine days late 4.2% (December 2025); 10 Louisiana counties sit in the CFPB sample; highest Louisiana county readings: Livingston 2.9%, Caddo 2.6%, Orleans 2.6%, East Baton Rouge 2.3%, St. Tammany 2.2%.

Louisiana county unemployment averages 4.1% across 64 counties; Louisiana permitted 14,034 housing units in twelve months (1,752 multifamily); 304,122 of 2,108,902 Louisiana housing units are vacant; 582,761 Louisiana renter households, 40.3% spending 30%+ of income on rent.

Louisiana ZIP price-cycle phases: 1,124 peak, 376 expansion, 271 recovery, 192 contraction, 83 neutral.