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

Jefferson County, LA, Louisiana: 17 ZIP codes scored, Jefferson County, LA averaging 37/100 (moderate, Jefferson, LA). Jefferson County, LA is in its peak phase (Jefferson, LA confidence 16/100): Jefferson, LA home prices up 1.7% (Jefferson, LA) over twelve months. Jefferson County, LA lender headwind: 41/100.

Highest-scoring Jefferson County, LA ZIPs: 70001 (37/100), 70002 (37/100), 70003 (37/100), 70005 (37/100), 70006 (37/100), 70036 (37/100). Also scored in Jefferson County, LA: 70053, 70056, 70058, 70062, 70065, 70067, 70072, 70094, 70121, 70123.

Across Jefferson County, LA's scored ZIPs: median home value $265,300, household income $64,855, 15.0% vacancy, 16.2% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 41.5.

Jefferson County, LA insurance distress 94/100 (#49 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Jefferson, LA; 6 federal disaster declarations in Jefferson County, LA since 2023 (4 hurricane); 1,405 Jefferson, LA NFIP flood claims, $62.2M paid; Jefferson, LA construction distress 52/100.

26 banks with 104 branches lend in Jefferson County, LA; Jefferson, LA weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 79/100 in Jefferson, LA.

Jefferson County, LA unemployment 3.5% (Jefferson, LA -0.6 pts, six months); 586 new housing units permitted in Jefferson County, LA over twelve months, Jefferson, LA down 2% from 596; Jefferson, LA home prices +3.5% a year (Jefferson, LA) over three years.

194,418 housing units in Jefferson County, LA; 66,701 Jefferson, LA renter households; 49% of Jefferson, LA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 27% (Jefferson, LA) half or more.

Jefferson County, LA ranks #451 nationally on the opportunity index (Jefferson, LA, among all ranked counties); Jefferson, LA scores 33.7/100 and Jefferson, LA sits #36 inside Louisiana. Jefferson, LA is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Jefferson, LA's primary driver is bank institutional, Jefferson, LA second driver construction; Jefferson, LA moved up 522 places. 108 short-sale listings across Jefferson, LA; 78 days on market observed in Jefferson, LA; 8.2% vacancy over 17 Jefferson, LA ZIPs.

2.0% of Jefferson County, LA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Jefferson, LA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 4.5% (CFPB county sample). Jefferson, LA's ninety-day rate is up 0.9 points on twelve months earlier; the Jefferson, LA peak since 2008 was 4.6% in August 2012; Louisiana overall reads 2.1%.

Jefferson County, LA has 18 watched banks; 18 Jefferson, LA banks sit in an elevated band. Jefferson, LA footprints: Gulf Coast Bank&Trust Co (7 branches, stress 74) in Jefferson, LA; Metairie Bank&Trust Co (6 branches, stress 64) in Jefferson, LA; Fidelity Bank (6 branches, stress 53) in Jefferson, LA.

HUD lists 19 assisted multifamily properties in Jefferson County, LA with 3,041 units; 1,303 Jefferson, LA units are assisted, 6 Jefferson, LA properties under project-based Section 8.

17,415 of the 194,418 housing units in Jefferson, LA sit vacant. Jefferson County, LA permitted 12 multifamily units in twelve months; Jefferson, LA's one-to-four unit structures added 574 units in Jefferson County, LA.