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

Lamar County, MS, Mississippi: 6 ZIP codes scored, Lamar County, MS averaging 25/100 (low, Lamar, MS), from 18 to 27. Lamar County, MS is in its neutral phase (Lamar, MS confidence 43/100): Lamar, MS home prices up 4.0% (Lamar, MS) over twelve months, 2.6% under their peak. Lamar County, MS lender headwind: 28/100.

Highest-scoring Lamar County, MS ZIPs: 39475 (27/100), 39482 (27/100), 39402 (26/100), 39455 (25/100), 39401 (24/100), 39429 (18/100).

Across Lamar County, MS's scored ZIPs: median home value $171,133, household income $56,240, 12.3% vacancy, 18.6% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 38.4.

Lamar County, MS insurance distress 51/100 (#1,062 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Lamar, MS; 6 federal disaster declarations in Lamar County, MS since 2023; 5 Lamar, MS NFIP flood claims, $41K paid; Lamar, MS construction distress 75/100.

16 banks with 28 branches lend in Lamar County, MS; Lamar, MS weighted bank stress 56/100, highest 86/100 in Lamar, MS.

Lamar County, MS unemployment 2.8% (Lamar, MS -0.9 pts, six months); 26 new housing units permitted in Lamar County, MS over twelve months, Lamar, MS down 41% from 44; Lamar, MS home prices +9.5% a year (Lamar, MS) over three years.

27,685 housing units in Lamar County, MS; 7,985 Lamar, MS renter households; 41% of Lamar, MS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Lamar, MS) half or more.

Lamar County, MS ranks #1,135 nationally on the opportunity index (Lamar, MS, among all ranked counties); Lamar, MS scores 30.7/100 and Lamar, MS sits #38 inside Mississippi. Lamar, MS is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Lamar, MS's primary driver is construction, Lamar, MS second driver bank institutional; Lamar, MS moved up 312 places. 48 short-sale listings across Lamar, MS; 36 days on market observed in Lamar, MS; 8.5% vacancy over 6 Lamar, MS ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Lamar County, MS. The non-metro area reading for Lamar, MS: 1.8% ninety-plus days late; Lamar, MS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 5.9% (Lamar, MS, December 2025 data); Mississippi overall 1.8%.

Lamar County, MS has 14 watched banks; 14 Lamar, MS banks sit in an elevated band. Lamar, MS footprints: Priorityone Bank (4 branches, stress 43) in Lamar, MS; Hancock Whitney Bank (2 branches, stress 64) in Lamar, MS; Trustmark Bank (2 branches, stress 58) in Lamar, MS.

HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Lamar County, MS with 655 units; 54 Lamar, MS units are assisted, 1 Lamar, MS properties under project-based Section 8.

2,304 of the 27,685 housing units in Lamar, MS sit vacant. Lamar County, MS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lamar, MS's one-to-four unit structures added 26 units in Lamar County, MS.