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

St. James County, LA, Louisiana: 7 ZIP codes scored, St. James County, LA averaging 32/100 (moderate, St. James, LA), from 32 to 35. St. James County, LA is in its peak phase (St. James, LA confidence 16/100): St. James, LA home prices up 1.7% (St. James, LA) over twelve months. St. James County, LA lender headwind: 39/100.

Highest-scoring St. James County, LA ZIPs: 70090 (35/100), 70052 (32/100), 70071 (32/100), 70086 (32/100), 70723 (32/100), 70743 (32/100). Also scored in St. James County, LA: 70763.

Across St. James County, LA's scored ZIPs: median home value $201,167, household income $72,792, 15.2% vacancy, 9.2% poverty, 86% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.

St. James County, LA insurance distress 91/100 (#94 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for St. James, LA; 6 federal disaster declarations in St. James County, LA since 2023 (4 hurricane); 26 St. James, LA NFIP flood claims, $820K paid; St. James, LA construction distress 45/100.

2 banks with 5 branches lend in St. James County, LA; St. James, LA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 62/100 in St. James, LA.

St. James County, LA unemployment 4.4% (St. James, LA -0.8 pts, six months); 65 new housing units permitted in St. James County, LA over twelve months, St. James, LA up 7% from 61; St. James, LA home prices +3.6% a year (St. James, LA) over three years.

8,678 housing units in St. James County, LA; 1,081 St. James, LA renter households; 26% of St. James, LA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (St. James, LA) half or more.

St. James County, LA ranks #32 nationally on the opportunity index (St. James, LA, among all ranked counties); St. James, LA scores 39.3/100 and St. James, LA sits #5 inside Louisiana. St. James, LA is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; St. James, LA's primary driver is vacancy, St. James, LA second driver bank institutional; St. James, LA moved up 101 places. 2 short-sale listings across St. James, LA; 79 days on market observed in St. James, LA; 13.7% vacancy over 7 St. James, LA ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers St. James County, LA. The metro area reading for St. James, LA (New Orleans-Metairie, LA): 2.2% ninety-plus days late; St. James, LA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.3% (St. James, LA, December 2025 data); Louisiana overall 2.1%.

St. James County, LA has 1 watched bank; 1 St. James, LA bank sits in an elevated band. St. James, LA footprints: First American Bank&Trust (4 branches, stress 62) in St. James, LA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in St. James County, LA with 100 units.

1,135 of the 8,678 housing units in St. James, LA sit vacant. St. James County, LA permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; St. James, LA's one-to-four unit structures added 65 units in St. James County, LA.