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

Orleans County, LA, Louisiana: 20 ZIP codes scored, Orleans County, LA averaging 38/100 (moderate, Orleans, LA). Orleans County, LA is in its peak phase (Orleans, LA confidence 16/100): Orleans, LA home prices up 1.7% (Orleans, LA) over twelve months. Orleans County, LA lender headwind: 43/100.

Highest-scoring Orleans County, LA ZIPs: 70112 (38/100), 70113 (38/100), 70114 (38/100), 70115 (38/100), 70116 (38/100), 70117 (38/100). Also scored in Orleans County, LA: 70118, 70119, 70122, 70124, 70125, 70126, 70127, 70128, 70129, 70130.

Across Orleans County, LA's scored ZIPs: median home value $349,159, household income $58,307, 24.6% vacancy, 27.2% poverty, 46% owner-occupied, median age 37.8.

Orleans County, LA insurance distress 92/100 (#74 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Orleans, LA; 6 federal disaster declarations in Orleans County, LA since 2023 (4 hurricane); 384 Orleans, LA NFIP flood claims, $7.9M paid; Orleans, LA construction distress 61/100.

20 banks with 75 branches lend in Orleans County, LA; Orleans, LA weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 77/100 in Orleans, LA.

Orleans County, LA unemployment 4.4% (Orleans, LA -0.5 pts, six months); 796 new housing units permitted in Orleans County, LA over twelve months, Orleans, LA down 11% from 896; Orleans, LA home prices +1.7% a year (Orleans, LA) over three years.

195,552 housing units in Orleans County, LA; 76,684 Orleans, LA renter households; 52% of Orleans, LA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 32% (Orleans, LA) half or more.

Orleans County, LA ranks #88 nationally on the opportunity index (Orleans, LA, among all ranked counties); Orleans, LA scores 37.5/100 and Orleans, LA sits #12 inside Louisiana. Orleans, LA is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Orleans, LA's primary driver is vacancy, Orleans, LA second driver construction; Orleans, LA moved up 25 places. 94 short-sale listings across Orleans, LA; 74 days on market observed in Orleans, LA; 18.8% vacancy over 20 Orleans, LA ZIPs.

2.6% of Orleans County, LA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Orleans, LA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.1% (CFPB county sample). Orleans, LA's ninety-day rate is up 0.7 points on twelve months earlier; the Orleans, LA peak since 2008 was 6.0% in March 2010; Louisiana overall reads 2.1%.

Orleans County, LA has 11 watched banks; 11 Orleans, LA banks sit in an elevated band. Orleans, LA footprints: Fidelity Bank (7 branches, stress 53) in Orleans, LA; Gulf Coast Bank&Trust Co (5 branches, stress 74) in Orleans, LA; Liberty Bank&Trust Co (5 branches, stress 68) in Orleans, LA.

HUD lists 40 assisted multifamily properties in Orleans County, LA with 4,740 units; 1,256 Orleans, LA units are assisted, 13 Orleans, LA properties under project-based Section 8.

39,731 of the 195,552 housing units in Orleans, LA sit vacant. Orleans County, LA permitted 348 multifamily units in twelve months; Orleans, LA's one-to-four unit structures added 448 units in Orleans County, LA.