St. James County, LA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

St. James County, Louisiana is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. ZIP-level distress ranges from 34/100 at the top down to 33/100. Coverage runs to 7 ZIPs across St. James County, a moderate 33/100 average. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 39/100.

In its peak phase, St. James County home prices rose 1.7% across the last year (phase confidence 16/100). With values leveling off, distress turns selective so screen ZIP by ZIP.

At +1.7% YoY and 16/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A moderate 39/100 lender headwind means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading St. James County on distress: 70090 (34/100), 70052 (33/100), 70071 (33/100), 70086 (33/100), 70723 (33/100), 70743 (33/100). Other tracked St. James County ZIPs include 70763.

Underneath the scores, the St. James County ZIPs on file run household income averaging about $72,792, roughly at the national median, a 9.2% poverty rate, 15.2% of units sitting vacant, typical home values near $201,167, residents with a median age around 40.6, an owner-occupied share of 86%. These fundamentals set up which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

At 33/100 composite over 7 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each St. James County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

No county is too small to score: St. James County, Louisiana runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so St. James County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Louisiana.

Approach St. James County by rank rather than by average — the 33/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. These St. James County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

Drilling in, St. James County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 70090 (34/100), 70052 (33/100), 70071 (33/100), 70086 (33/100), 70723 (33/100), 70743 (33/100). DLRadar also scores 70763 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under St. James County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.