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

Hancock County, MS, Mississippi: 11 ZIP codes scored, Hancock County, MS averaging 30/100 (moderate, Hancock, MS), from 25 to 34. Hancock County, MS is in its neutral phase (Hancock, MS confidence 40/100): Hancock, MS home prices up 4.8% (Hancock, MS) over twelve months. Hancock County, MS lender headwind: 33/100.

Highest-scoring Hancock County, MS ZIPs: 39571 (34/100), 39520 (30/100), 39525 (30/100), 39529 (30/100), 39556 (30/100), 39572 (30/100). Also scored in Hancock County, MS: 39576, 39426, 39466, 39470, 39573.

Across Hancock County, MS's scored ZIPs: median home value $200,800, household income $63,188, 14.4% vacancy, 14.3% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 43.7.

Hancock County, MS insurance distress 75/100 (#494 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Hancock, MS; 8 federal disaster declarations in Hancock County, MS since 2023; 99 Hancock, MS NFIP flood claims, $1.3M paid; Hancock, MS construction distress 40/100.

7 banks with 12 branches lend in Hancock County, MS; Hancock, MS weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 74/100 in Hancock, MS.

Hancock County, MS unemployment 2.6% (Hancock, MS -1.1 pts, six months); 264 new housing units permitted in Hancock County, MS over twelve months, Hancock, MS up 9% from 243; Hancock, MS home prices +9.6% a year (Hancock, MS) over three years.

23,715 housing units in Hancock County, MS; 4,233 Hancock, MS renter households; 41% of Hancock, MS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Hancock, MS) half or more.

Hancock County, MS ranks #375 nationally on the opportunity index (Hancock, MS, among all ranked counties); Hancock, MS scores 34.2/100 and Hancock, MS sits #11 inside Mississippi. Hancock, MS is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Hancock, MS's primary driver is vacancy, Hancock, MS second driver bank institutional; Hancock, MS moved up 667 places. 54 short-sale listings across Hancock, MS; 82 days on market observed in Hancock, MS; 14.9% vacancy over 11 Hancock, MS ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Hancock County, MS. The metro area reading for Hancock, MS (Gulfport-Biloxi, MS): 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Hancock, MS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.6% (Hancock, MS, December 2025 data); Mississippi overall 1.8%.

Hancock County, MS has 5 watched banks; 5 Hancock, MS banks sit in an elevated band. Hancock, MS footprints: Peoples Bank Biloxi Ms (3 branches, stress 66) in Hancock, MS; Hancock Whitney Bank (3 branches, stress 64) in Hancock, MS; Renasant Bank (2 branches, stress 43) in Hancock, MS.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Hancock County, MS with 317 units; 60 Hancock, MS units are assisted, 1 Hancock, MS properties under project-based Section 8.

3,478 of the 23,715 housing units in Hancock, MS sit vacant. Hancock County, MS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Hancock, MS's one-to-four unit structures added 264 units in Hancock County, MS.