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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Washington County, Mississippi using verifiable public-record signals alone. On bank and credit headwind, Washington County scores 44/100. Coverage runs to 10 ZIPs across Washington County, a low 25/100 average. Individual Washington County ZIPs score between 22 and 25 on the 0–100 composite.

In its peak phase, Washington County home prices rose 3.6% across the last year, a 21/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +3.6% YoY (21/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 44/100 lender reading means both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 38701 (25/100), 38722 (25/100), 38723 (25/100), 38731 (25/100), 38756 (25/100), 38760 (25/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. The breakdown continues through 38776, 38703, 38748, 38744 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, the Washington County ZIPs on file report 20.1% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 33, a 34.2% poverty rate, an owner-occupied share of 63%, incomes around $39,990, home values averaging roughly $101,514, below the US. Read together, they drive the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

At 25/100 composite over 10 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Washington County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Whether Washington 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 Washington County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Approach Washington County by rank rather than by average — the 25/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. The Washington County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Washington County leads with 38701 (25/100), 38722 (25/100), 38723 (25/100), 38731 (25/100), 38756 (25/100), 38760 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 38776, 38703, 38748, 38744 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Washington County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.