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

Jackson County, MS, Mississippi: 11 ZIP codes scored, Jackson County, MS averaging 22/100 (low, Jackson, MS), from 20 to 33. Jackson County, MS is in its neutral phase (Jackson, MS confidence 40/100): Jackson, MS home prices up 4.8% (Jackson, MS) over twelve months. Jackson County, MS lender headwind: 77/100.

Highest-scoring Jackson County, MS ZIPs: 39532 (33/100), 39573 (25/100), 39452 (20/100), 39553 (20/100), 39562 (20/100), 39563 (20/100). Also scored in Jackson County, MS: 39564, 39565, 39567, 39581, 39595.

Across Jackson County, MS's scored ZIPs: median home value $181,750, household income $64,788, 10.7% vacancy, 16.1% poverty, 73% owner-occupied, median age 37.9.

Jackson County, MS insurance distress 30/100 (#1,623 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Jackson, MS; 4 federal disaster declarations in Jackson County, MS since 2023; 42 Jackson, MS NFIP flood claims, $917K paid; Jackson, MS construction distress 1/100.

12 banks with 37 branches lend in Jackson County, MS; Jackson, MS weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 85/100 in Jackson, MS.

Jackson County, MS unemployment 3.0% (Jackson, MS -1.1 pts, six months); 882 new housing units permitted in Jackson County, MS over twelve months, Jackson, MS up 66% from 532; Jackson, MS home prices +8.0% a year (Jackson, MS) over three years.

63,558 housing units in Jackson County, MS; 15,984 Jackson, MS renter households; 44% of Jackson, MS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Jackson, MS) half or more.

Jackson County, MS ranks #1,676 nationally on the opportunity index (Jackson, MS, among all ranked counties); Jackson, MS scores 28.8/100 and Jackson, MS sits #55 inside Mississippi. Jackson, MS is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Jackson, MS's primary driver is bank institutional, Jackson, MS second driver vacancy; Jackson, MS moved up 805 places. 71 short-sale listings across Jackson, MS; 56 days on market observed in Jackson, MS; 9.3% vacancy over 11 Jackson, MS ZIPs.

2.3% of Jackson County, MS mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Jackson, MS's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.4% (CFPB county sample). Jackson, MS's ninety-day rate is up 0.7 points on twelve months earlier; the Jackson, MS peak since 2008 was 5.4% in June 2012; Mississippi overall reads 1.8%.

Jackson County, MS has 8 watched banks; 8 Jackson, MS banks sit in an elevated band. Jackson, MS footprints: Merchants&Marine Bank (9 branches, stress 47) in Jackson, MS; First Fs&La (6 branches, stress 84) in Jackson, MS; Hancock Whitney Bank (5 branches, stress 64) in Jackson, MS.

HUD lists 7 assisted multifamily properties in Jackson County, MS with 695 units; 77 Jackson, MS units are assisted, 1 Jackson, MS properties under project-based Section 8.

5,911 of the 63,558 housing units in Jackson, MS sit vacant. Jackson County, MS permitted 150 multifamily units in twelve months; Jackson, MS's one-to-four unit structures added 732 units in Jackson County, MS.