Halifax County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Halifax County, NC, North Carolina: 9 ZIP codes scored, Halifax County, NC averaging 23/100 (low, Halifax, NC), from 22 to 30. Halifax County, NC is in its peak phase (Halifax, NC confidence 18/100): Halifax, NC home prices up 1.9% (Halifax, NC) over twelve months. Halifax County, NC lender headwind: 61/100.

Highest-scoring Halifax County, NC ZIPs: 27891 (30/100), 27843 (26/100), 27844 (23/100), 27823 (22/100), 27839 (22/100), 27850 (22/100). Also scored in Halifax County, NC: 27870, 27874, 27890.

Across Halifax County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $113,933, household income $48,751, 21.7% vacancy, 24.7% poverty, 69% owner-occupied, median age 45.0.

Halifax County, NC insurance distress 40/100 (#1,317 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Halifax, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Halifax County, NC since 2023; Halifax, NC construction distress 46/100.

8 banks with 12 branches lend in Halifax County, NC; Halifax, NC weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 71/100 in Halifax, NC.

Halifax County, NC unemployment 5.3% (Halifax, NC -0.4 pts, six months); 79 new housing units permitted in Halifax County, NC over twelve months, Halifax, NC up 5% from 75; Halifax, NC home prices +10.7% a year (Halifax, NC) over three years.

24,872 housing units in Halifax County, NC; 7,403 Halifax, NC renter households; 45% of Halifax, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Halifax, NC) half or more.

Halifax County, NC ranks #515 nationally on the opportunity index (Halifax, NC, among all ranked counties); Halifax, NC scores 33.4/100 and Halifax, NC sits #25 inside North Carolina. Halifax, NC is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Halifax, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Halifax, NC second driver bank institutional; Halifax, NC moved up 351 places. 3 short-sale listings across Halifax, NC; 81 days on market observed in Halifax, NC; 18.0% vacancy over 9 Halifax, NC ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Halifax County, NC. The non-metro area reading for Halifax, NC: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Halifax, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Halifax, NC, December 2025 data); North Carolina overall 0.9%.

Halifax County, NC has 5 watched banks; 5 Halifax, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Halifax, NC footprints: Truist Bank (4 branches, stress 62) in Halifax, NC; Southern Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 69) in Halifax, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 71) in Halifax, NC.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Halifax County, NC with 129 units; 128 Halifax, NC units are assisted, 1 Halifax, NC properties under project-based Section 8.

4,489 of the 24,872 housing units in Halifax, NC sit vacant. Halifax County, NC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Halifax, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 79 units in Halifax County, NC.