Benton County, MS: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Benton County, MS, Mississippi: 11 ZIP codes scored, Benton County, MS averaging 11/100 (minimal, Benton, MS), from 2 to 16. Benton County, MS is in its peak phase (Benton, MS confidence 11/100): Benton, MS home prices up 1.2% (Benton, MS) over twelve months. Benton County, MS lender headwind: 100/100.

Highest-scoring Benton County, MS ZIPs: 38635 (16/100), 38650 (16/100), 38659 (15/100), 38610 (12/100), 38642 (12/100), 38663 (12/100). Also scored in Benton County, MS: 38629, 38633, 38683, 38603, 38647.

Across Benton County, MS's scored ZIPs: median home value $126,055, household income $52,221, 20.8% vacancy, 18.6% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 41.6.

Benton County, MS insurance distress 0/100 (#2,786 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Benton, MS; 4 federal disaster declarations in Benton County, MS since 2023; Benton, MS construction distress 34/100.

2 banks with 3 branches lend in Benton County, MS; Benton, MS weighted bank stress 78/100, highest 92/100 in Benton, MS.

Benton County, MS unemployment 3.3% (Benton, MS -1.2 pts, six months); 1 new housing units permitted in Benton County, MS over twelve months.

4,091 housing units in Benton County, MS; 506 Benton, MS renter households; 34% of Benton, MS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 6% (Benton, MS) half or more.

Benton County, MS ranks #2,467 nationally on the opportunity index (Benton, MS, among all ranked counties); Benton, MS scores 26.0/100 and Benton, MS sits #74 inside Mississippi. Benton, MS is in the weak opportunity phase; Benton, MS's primary driver is vacancy, Benton, MS second driver bank institutional; Benton, MS moved down 1,454 places. 3 short-sale listings across Benton, MS; 7 days on market observed in Benton, MS; 21.9% vacancy over 11 Benton, MS ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Benton County, MS. The metro area reading for Benton, MS (Memphis, TN-MS-AR): 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Benton, MS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.5% (Benton, MS, December 2025 data); Mississippi overall 1.8%.

Benton County, MS has 2 watched banks; 2 Benton, MS banks sit in an elevated band. Benton, MS footprints: Unity Bank Of Mississippi (2 branches, stress 92) in Benton, MS; Bank Of Holly Springs (1 branch, stress 51) in Benton, MS.

1,017 of the 4,091 housing units in Benton, MS sit vacant. Benton County, MS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Benton, MS's one-to-four unit structures added 1 units in Benton County, MS.