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

Rapides County, LA, Louisiana: 29 ZIP codes scored, Rapides County, LA averaging 31/100 (moderate, Rapides, LA), from 22 to 36. Rapides County, LA is in its peak phase (Rapides, LA confidence 15/100): Rapides, LA home prices up 2.2% (Rapides, LA) over twelve months. Rapides County, LA lender headwind: 34/100.

Highest-scoring Rapides County, LA ZIPs: 71351 (36/100), 71322 (35/100), 71323 (35/100), 71301 (32/100), 71302 (32/100), 71303 (32/100). Also scored in Rapides County, LA: 71328, 71330, 71346, 71359, 71360, 71405, 71409, 71424, 71430, 71433.

Across Rapides County, LA's scored ZIPs: median home value $156,876, household income $55,167, 19.5% vacancy, 19.9% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 38.5.

Rapides County, LA insurance distress 76/100 (#473 in the US); FEMA hazard 74/100 for Rapides, LA; 4 federal disaster declarations in Rapides County, LA since 2023 (2 hurricane); 26 Rapides, LA NFIP flood claims, $277K paid; Rapides, LA construction distress 51/100.

15 banks with 48 branches lend in Rapides County, LA; Rapides, LA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 93/100 in Rapides, LA.

Rapides County, LA unemployment 3.5% (Rapides, LA -0.7 pts, six months); 243 new housing units permitted in Rapides County, LA over twelve months, Rapides, LA down 0% from 244; Rapides, LA home prices +4.8% a year (Rapides, LA) over three years.

58,573 housing units in Rapides County, LA; 16,889 Rapides, LA renter households; 46% of Rapides, LA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Rapides, LA) half or more.

Rapides County, LA ranks #468 nationally on the opportunity index (Rapides, LA, among all ranked counties); Rapides, LA scores 33.6/100 and Rapides, LA sits #38 inside Louisiana. Rapides, LA is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Rapides, LA's primary driver is vacancy, Rapides, LA second driver bank institutional; Rapides, LA moved up 174 places. 16 short-sale listings across Rapides, LA; 99 days on market observed in Rapides, LA; 16.3% vacancy over 29 Rapides, LA ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Rapides County, LA. The non-metro area reading for Rapides, LA: 1.8% ninety-plus days late; Rapides, LA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.3% (Rapides, LA, December 2025 data); Louisiana overall 2.1%.

Rapides County, LA has 10 watched banks; 10 Rapides, LA banks sit in an elevated band. Rapides, LA footprints: Sabine State Bank&Trust Co (9 branches, stress 62) in Rapides, LA; Red River Bank (8 branches, stress 57) in Rapides, LA; Bom Bank (5 branches, stress 69) in Rapides, LA.

HUD lists 16 assisted multifamily properties in Rapides County, LA with 1,211 units; 400 Rapides, LA units are assisted, 3 Rapides, LA properties under project-based Section 8.

9,619 of the 58,573 housing units in Rapides, LA sit vacant. Rapides County, LA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Rapides, LA's one-to-four unit structures added 243 units in Rapides County, LA.