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

Wayne County, MS, Mississippi: 8 ZIP codes scored, Wayne County, MS averaging 15/100 (low, Wayne, MS), from 10 to 24. Wayne County, MS is in its peak phase (Wayne, MS confidence 28/100): Wayne, MS home prices up 3.8% (Wayne, MS) over twelve months. Wayne County, MS lender headwind: 93/100.

Highest-scoring Wayne County, MS ZIPs: 39443 (24/100), 39439 (18/100), 39322 (15/100), 39324 (15/100), 39367 (15/100), 39362 (14/100). Also scored in Wayne County, MS: 39476, 39360.

Across Wayne County, MS's scored ZIPs: median home value $101,286, household income $48,671, 20.8% vacancy, 23.4% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 39.6.

Wayne County, MS insurance distress 32/100 (#1,534 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Wayne, MS; 6 federal disaster declarations in Wayne County, MS since 2023; Wayne, MS construction distress 6/100.

5 banks with 11 branches lend in Wayne County, MS; Wayne, MS weighted bank stress 78/100, highest 86/100 in Wayne, MS.

Wayne County, MS unemployment 3.4% (Wayne, MS -1.1 pts, six months); 7 new housing units permitted in Wayne County, MS over twelve months, Wayne, MS up 75% from 4; Wayne, MS home prices +6.3% a year (Wayne, MS) over three years.

9,143 housing units in Wayne County, MS; 870 Wayne, MS renter households; 48% of Wayne, MS renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 25% (Wayne, MS) half or more.

Wayne County, MS ranks #217 nationally on the opportunity index (Wayne, MS, among all ranked counties); Wayne, MS scores 35.7/100 and Wayne, MS sits #8 inside Mississippi. Wayne, MS is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Wayne, MS's primary driver is vacancy, Wayne, MS second driver bank institutional; Wayne, MS moved up 192 places. 12 short-sale listings across Wayne, MS; 118 days on market observed in Wayne, MS; 19.2% vacancy over 8 Wayne, MS ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Wayne County, MS. The non-metro area reading for Wayne, MS: 1.8% ninety-plus days late; Wayne, MS's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 5.9% (Wayne, MS, December 2025 data); Mississippi overall 1.8%.

Wayne County, MS has 4 watched banks; 4 Wayne, MS banks sit in an elevated band. Wayne, MS footprints: First State Bank (7 branches, stress 85) in Wayne, MS; Great Southern Bank (1 branch, stress 86) in Wayne, MS; Bankplus (1 branch, stress 61) in Wayne, MS.

1,462 of the 9,143 housing units in Wayne, MS sit vacant. Wayne County, MS permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Wayne, MS's one-to-four unit structures added 7 units in Wayne County, MS.