Lee County, MS: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lee County, MS, Mississippi: 15 ZIP codes scored, Lee County, MS averaging 22/100 (low, Lee, MS), from 13 to 28. Lee County, MS is in its peak phase (Lee, MS confidence 21/100): Lee, MS home prices up 3.6% (Lee, MS) over twelve months. Lee County, MS lender headwind: 41/100.
Highest-scoring Lee County, MS ZIPs: 38804 (28/100), 38857 (28/100), 38862 (28/100), 38866 (28/100), 38879 (28/100), 38801 (25/100). Also scored in Lee County, MS: 38849, 38868, 38858, 38824, 38826, 38828, 38843, 38855, 38860.
Across Lee County, MS's scored ZIPs: median home value $164,543, household income $63,606, 14.6% vacancy, 13.7% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 40.4.
Lee County, MS insurance distress 60/100 (#902 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Lee, MS; 6 federal disaster declarations in Lee County, MS since 2023; 11 Lee, MS NFIP flood claims, $660K paid; Lee, MS construction distress 47/100.
14 banks with 48 branches lend in Lee County, MS; Lee, MS weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 89/100 in Lee, MS.
Lee County, MS unemployment 2.9% (Lee, MS -0.9 pts, six months); 142 new housing units permitted in Lee County, MS over twelve months, Lee, MS up 3% from 138; Lee, MS home prices +7.5% a year (Lee, MS) over three years.
37,654 housing units in Lee County, MS; 9,476 Lee, MS renter households; 43% of Lee, MS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Lee, MS) half or more.
Lee County, MS ranks #1,590 nationally on the opportunity index (Lee, MS, among all ranked counties); Lee, MS scores 29.1/100 and Lee, MS sits #53 inside Mississippi. Lee, MS is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Lee, MS's primary driver is vacancy, Lee, MS second driver bank institutional; Lee, MS moved down 94 places. 5 short-sale listings across Lee, MS; 97 days on market observed in Lee, MS; 15.2% vacancy over 15 Lee, MS ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Lee County, MS. The non-metro area reading for Lee, MS: 1.8% ninety-plus days late; Lee, MS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 5.9% (Lee, MS, December 2025 data); Mississippi overall 1.8%.
Lee County, MS has 10 watched banks; 10 Lee, MS banks sit in an elevated band. Lee, MS footprints: Renasant Bank (13 branches, stress 43) in Lee, MS; Bankplus (4 branches, stress 61) in Lee, MS; Trustmark Bank (4 branches, stress 58) in Lee, MS.
HUD lists 9 assisted multifamily properties in Lee County, MS with 785 units; 274 Lee, MS units are assisted, 5 Lee, MS properties under project-based Section 8.
5,063 of the 37,654 housing units in Lee, MS sit vacant. Lee County, MS permitted 18 multifamily units in twelve months; Lee, MS's one-to-four unit structures added 124 units in Lee County, MS.