Cameron County, LA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Cameron County, LA, Louisiana: 8 ZIP codes scored, Cameron County, LA averaging 27/100 (low, Cameron, LA), from 25 to 31. Cameron County, LA is in its expansion phase (Cameron, LA confidence 94/100): Cameron, LA home prices up 8.0% (Cameron, LA) over twelve months. Cameron County, LA lender headwind: 19/100.

Highest-scoring Cameron County, LA ZIPs: 70607 (31/100), 70630 (30/100), 70542 (29/100), 70549 (27/100), 70631 (25/100), 70632 (25/100). Also scored in Cameron County, LA: 70643, 70645.

Across Cameron County, LA's scored ZIPs: median home value $168,071, household income $58,994, 38.7% vacancy, 10.8% poverty, 87% owner-occupied, median age 48.9.

Cameron County, LA insurance distress 69/100 (#660 in the US); FEMA hazard 74/100 for Cameron, LA; 4 federal disaster declarations in Cameron County, LA since 2023 (2 hurricane); 2 Cameron, LA NFIP flood claims, $19K paid; Cameron, LA construction distress 63/100.

3 banks with 3 branches lend in Cameron County, LA; Cameron, LA weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 62/100 in Cameron, LA.

Cameron County, LA unemployment 3.6% (Cameron, LA -0.7 pts, six months); 14 new housing units permitted in Cameron County, LA over twelve months, Cameron, LA down 13% from 16.

3,463 housing units in Cameron County, LA; 63 Cameron, LA renter households; 16% of Cameron, LA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Cameron, LA) half or more.

Cameron County, LA ranks #42 nationally on the opportunity index (Cameron, LA, among all ranked counties); Cameron, LA scores 39.0/100 and Cameron, LA sits #6 inside Louisiana. Cameron, LA is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Cameron, LA's primary driver is vacancy, Cameron, LA second driver construction; Cameron, LA moved up 54 places. 3 short-sale listings across Cameron, LA; 112 days on market observed in Cameron, LA; 27.0% vacancy over 8 Cameron, LA ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Cameron County, LA. The metro area reading for Cameron, LA (Lake Charles, LA): 1.5% ninety-plus days late; Cameron, LA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.9% (Cameron, LA, December 2025 data); Louisiana overall 2.1%.

Cameron County, LA has 2 watched banks; 2 Cameron, LA banks sit in an elevated band. Cameron, LA footprints: Sabine State Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 62) in Cameron, LA; B1bank (1 branch, stress 58) in Cameron, LA.

1,445 of the 3,463 housing units in Cameron, LA sit vacant. Cameron County, LA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Cameron, LA's one-to-four unit structures added 14 units in Cameron County, LA.