Lea County, NM: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lea County, NM, New Mexico: 11 ZIP codes scored, Lea County, NM averaging 24/100 (low, Lea, NM). Lea County, NM is in its peak phase (Lea, NM confidence 24/100): Lea, NM home prices up 1.9% (Lea, NM) over twelve months. Lea County, NM lender headwind: 18/100.
Highest-scoring Lea County, NM ZIPs: 88114 (24/100), 88231 (24/100), 88240 (24/100), 88242 (24/100), 88244 (24/100), 88252 (24/100). Also scored in Lea County, NM: 88260, 88262, 88264, 88265, 88267.
Across Lea County, NM's scored ZIPs: median home value $174,543, household income $70,064, 31.6% vacancy, 11.1% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 35.0.
Lea County, NM insurance distress 19/100 (#2,356 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Lea, NM; 2 Lea, NM NFIP flood claims, $5K paid; Lea, NM construction distress 72/100.
8 banks with 19 branches lend in Lea County, NM; Lea, NM weighted bank stress 52/100, highest 77/100 in Lea, NM.
Lea County, NM unemployment 4.3% (Lea, NM -0.1 pts, six months); 138 new housing units permitted in Lea County, NM over twelve months, Lea, NM down 22% from 176; Lea, NM home prices +5.9% a year (Lea, NM) over three years.
28,403 housing units in Lea County, NM; 7,496 Lea, NM renter households; 38% of Lea, NM renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Lea, NM) half or more.
Lea County, NM ranks #2,025 nationally on the opportunity index (Lea, NM, among all ranked counties); Lea, NM scores 27.6/100 and Lea, NM sits #26 inside New Mexico. Lea, NM is in the weak opportunity phase; Lea, NM's primary driver is construction, Lea, NM second driver vacancy; Lea, NM moved up 166 places. 2 short-sale listings across Lea, NM; 108 days on market observed in Lea, NM; 12.1% vacancy over 11 Lea, NM ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Lea County, NM. The state reading for Lea, NM: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Lea, NM's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.4% (Lea, NM, December 2025 data).
Lea County, NM has 5 watched banks; 5 Lea, NM banks sit in an elevated band. Lea, NM footprints: Western Commerce Bank (5 branches, stress 41) in Lea, NM; Lea County State Bank (3 branches, stress 67) in Lea, NM; First American Bank (3 branches, stress 39) in Lea, NM.
HUD lists 10 assisted multifamily properties in Lea County, NM with 819 units; 87 Lea, NM units are assisted, 2 Lea, NM properties under project-based Section 8.
3,733 of the 28,403 housing units in Lea, NM sit vacant. Lea County, NM permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lea, NM's one-to-four unit structures added 138 units in Lea County, NM.