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

Winston County, Mississippi is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Individual Winston County ZIPs score between 2 and 23 on the 0–100 composite. 10 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 11/100 distress. Lender pressure in Winston County registers 70/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind.

In its peak phase, Winston County home prices rose 3.8% across the last year, at 28/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, distress turns selective — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Winston County flat at +3.8% YoY (28/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. An elevated 70/100 reading favors patient capital: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Highest scores land in 39350 (23/100), 39346 (16/100), 39339 (15/100), 39769 (15/100), 39341 (14/100), 39354 (14/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 39090, 39108, 39735, 39772 and more.

Underneath the scores, Winston County's scored ZIPs report incomes around $48,121, a 18.5% vacancy rate, a 21% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 42.3, typical home values near $112,260, 78% of homes owner-occupied. Taken together, they set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 11/100 over 10 ZIPs, Winston County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Winston County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

No county is too small to score: Winston County, Mississippi runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Winston County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Mississippi.

Approach Winston County by rank rather than by average — the 11/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. The Winston 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 Winston County are 39350 (23/100), 39346 (16/100), 39339 (15/100), 39769 (15/100), 39341 (14/100), 39354 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 39090, 39108, 39735, 39772 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 Winston 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.