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

Quitman County, Mississippi sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 24/100 at the top down to 2/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 48/100 (moderate). There are 10 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 9/100).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.8% over twelve months (phase confidence 28/100). This late in the run, distress turns selective with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

With Quitman County flat at +3.8% YoY (28/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A moderate 48/100 lender headwind points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 38617 (24/100), ZIP 38645 (22/100), ZIP 38606 (13/100), ZIP 38621 (10/100), ZIP 38622 (7/100), ZIP 38670 (7/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 38643, 38964, 38623, 38646.

Profile-wise, the Quitman County ZIPs on file report a median age of 37.9, 58% owner-occupancy, vacancy near 14.2%, a median household income near $48,192 (below the US norm), median home values around $84,063 (below the national figure), poverty running near 31.4%. Taken together, they frame both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

At 9/100 composite over 10 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Quitman County property carries owner, address and APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Because Quitman County, Mississippi is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Quitman County against neighboring markets or the rest of Mississippi on equal footing.

Treat Quitman County, Mississippi as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. The Quitman County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Quitman County are 38617 (24/100), 38645 (22/100), 38606 (13/100), 38621 (10/100), 38622 (7/100), 38670 (7/100). DLRadar also scores 38643, 38964, 38623, 38646 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 Quitman 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.