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

Tate County, MS, Mississippi: 5 ZIP codes scored, Tate County, MS averaging 16/100 (low, Tate, MS), from 14 to 17. Tate County, MS is in its peak phase (Tate, MS confidence 11/100): Tate, MS home prices up 1.2% (Tate, MS) over twelve months. Tate County, MS lender headwind: 39/100.

Highest-scoring Tate County, MS ZIPs: 38618 (17/100), 38668 (17/100), 38635 (16/100), 38665 (15/100), 38619 (14/100).

Across Tate County, MS's scored ZIPs: median home value $175,940, household income $56,165, 13.7% vacancy, 18.6% poverty, 70% owner-occupied, median age 39.7.

Tate County, MS insurance distress 28/100 (#1,683 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Tate, MS; 4 federal disaster declarations in Tate County, MS since 2023; 4 Tate, MS NFIP flood claims, $240K paid; Tate, MS construction distress 50/100.

8 banks with 10 branches lend in Tate County, MS; Tate, MS weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 69/100 in Tate, MS.

Tate County, MS unemployment 3.1% (Tate, MS -1.1 pts, six months); 117 new housing units permitted in Tate County, MS over twelve months, Tate, MS up 0% from 117; Tate, MS home prices +11.1% a year (Tate, MS) over three years.

11,694 housing units in Tate County, MS; 2,901 Tate, MS renter households; 45% of Tate, MS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Tate, MS) half or more.

Tate County, MS ranks #2,467 nationally on the opportunity index (Tate, MS, among all ranked counties); Tate, MS scores 26.0/100 and Tate, MS sits #74 inside Mississippi. Tate, MS is in the weak opportunity phase; Tate, MS's primary driver is bank institutional, Tate, MS second driver construction; Tate, MS moved up 322 places. 7 short-sale listings across Tate, MS; 108 days on market observed in Tate, MS; 7.4% vacancy over 5 Tate, MS ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Tate County, MS. The metro area reading for Tate, MS (Memphis, TN-MS-AR): 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Tate, MS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.5% (Tate, MS, December 2025 data); Mississippi overall 1.8%.

Tate County, MS has 3 watched banks; 3 Tate, MS banks sit in an elevated band. Tate, MS footprints: Bankfirst Financial Services (3 branches, stress 57) in Tate, MS; First Security Bank (1 branch, stress 69) in Tate, MS; Guaranty Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 64) in Tate, MS.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Tate County, MS with 80 units.

676 of the 11,694 housing units in Tate, MS sit vacant. Tate County, MS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Tate, MS's one-to-four unit structures added 117 units in Tate County, MS.