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

For Lee County, Mississippi, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 41 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. Coverage runs to 15 ZIPs across Lee County, a low 21/100 average. Individual Lee County ZIPs score between 14 and 28 on the 0–100 composite.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.6% over the past year (phase confidence 21/100). With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +3.6% YoY (21/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 41/100 points to both signal sets in play here.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 38857 (28/100), ZIP 38862 (28/100), ZIP 38866 (28/100), ZIP 38879 (28/100), ZIP 38804 (27/100), ZIP 38801 (25/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Coverage extends to 38849, 38868, 38858, 38824, 38826, 38828, 38843, 38855, 38860 among others.

Underneath the scores, Lee County's tracked footprint report 13.7% of households below the poverty line, a 14.6% vacancy rate, household income averaging about $63,606, below the national median, 76% owner-occupancy, home values averaging roughly $164,543, below the US, residents with a median age around 40.4. Taken together, they drive who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

With a low 21/100 reading over 15 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Lee County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Whether Lee County, Mississippi carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Lee County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Lee County, Mississippi's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. Every Lee County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lee County are 38857 (28/100), 38862 (28/100), 38866 (28/100), 38879 (28/100), 38804 (27/100), 38801 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 38849, 38868, 38858, 38824, 38826, 38828, 38843, 38855 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

The Lee County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.