Sierra County, NM: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Sierra County, NM, New Mexico: 10 ZIP codes scored, Sierra County, NM averaging 12/100 (minimal, Sierra, NM), from 10 to 29. Sierra County, NM is in its peak phase (Sierra, NM confidence 26/100): Sierra, NM home prices up 1.1% (Sierra, NM) over twelve months. Sierra County, NM lender headwind: 0/100.

Highest-scoring Sierra County, NM ZIPs: 87936 (29/100), 87901 (10/100), 87930 (10/100), 87931 (10/100), 87933 (10/100), 87935 (10/100). Also scored in Sierra County, NM: 87939, 87942, 87943, 88042.

Across Sierra County, NM's scored ZIPs: median home value $164,060, household income $35,186, 32.3% vacancy, 23.4% poverty, 86% owner-occupied, median age 62.3.

Sierra County, NM insurance distress 0/100 (#2,929 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Sierra, NM; Sierra, NM construction distress 1/100.

3 banks with 4 branches lend in Sierra County, NM; Sierra, NM weighted bank stress 48/100, highest 70/100 in Sierra, NM.

Sierra County, NM unemployment 5.9% (Sierra, NM -2.0 pts, six months); Sierra, NM home prices +10.3% a year (Sierra, NM) over three years.

8,200 housing units in Sierra County, NM; 1,613 Sierra, NM renter households; 39% of Sierra, NM renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Sierra, NM) half or more.

Sierra County, NM ranks #450 nationally on the opportunity index (Sierra, NM, among all ranked counties); Sierra, NM scores 33.7/100 and Sierra, NM sits #3 inside New Mexico. Sierra, NM is in the overheated opportunity phase; Sierra, NM's primary driver is vacancy, Sierra, NM second driver bank institutional; Sierra, NM moved up 213 places. 3 short-sale listings across Sierra, NM; 108 days on market observed in Sierra, NM; 32.4% vacancy over 10 Sierra, NM ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Sierra County, NM. The state reading for Sierra, NM: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Sierra, NM's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.4% (Sierra, NM, December 2025 data).

Sierra County, NM has 2 watched banks; 2 Sierra, NM banks sit in an elevated band. Sierra, NM footprints: Bank Of The Southwest (2 branches, stress 70) in Sierra, NM; Citizens Bank Of Las Cruces (1 branch, stress 46) in Sierra, NM.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Sierra County, NM with 32 units; 31 Sierra, NM units are assisted, 1 Sierra, NM properties under project-based Section 8.

2,760 of the 8,200 housing units in Sierra, NM sit vacant.