Austin County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Austin County, TX, Texas: 13 ZIP codes scored, Austin County, TX averaging 28/100 (low, Austin, TX), from 26 to 30. Austin County, TX is in its recovery phase (Austin, TX confidence 17/100): Austin, TX home prices up 2.7% (Austin, TX) over twelve months. Austin County, TX lender headwind: 0/100.
Highest-scoring Austin County, TX ZIPs: 77485 (30/100), 77418 (29/100), 77473 (29/100), 77474 (29/100), 78931 (29/100), 78944 (29/100). Also scored in Austin County, TX: 77426, 77833, 77835, 78950, 78933, 78940, 78954.
Across Austin County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $340,736, household income $76,298, 19.0% vacancy, 12.8% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 46.2.
Austin County, TX insurance distress 84/100 (#272 in the US); FEMA hazard 91/100 for Austin, TX; 6 federal disaster declarations in Austin County, TX since 2023 (3 hurricane, 3 flood); 3 Austin, TX NFIP flood claims, $87K paid; Austin, TX construction distress 73/100.
8 banks with 13 branches lend in Austin County, TX; Austin, TX weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 67/100 in Austin, TX.
Austin County, TX unemployment 4.4% (Austin, TX +0.2 pts, six months); 297 new housing units permitted in Austin County, TX over twelve months, Austin, TX down 23% from 387; Austin, TX home prices +10.2% a year (Austin, TX) over three years.
14,319 housing units in Austin County, TX; 2,740 Austin, TX renter households; 44% of Austin, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 26% (Austin, TX) half or more.
Austin County, TX ranks #651 nationally on the opportunity index (Austin, TX, among all ranked counties); Austin, TX scores 32.6/100 and Austin, TX sits #81 inside Texas. Austin, TX is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Austin, TX's primary driver is construction, Austin, TX second driver bank institutional; Austin, TX moved down 24 places. 2 short-sale listings across Austin, TX; 93 days on market observed in Austin, TX; 11.2% vacancy over 13 Austin, TX ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Austin County, TX. The metro area reading for Austin, TX (Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX): 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Austin, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.1% (Austin, TX, December 2025 data); Texas overall 1.2%.
Austin County, TX has 5 watched banks; 5 Austin, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Austin, TX footprints: Austin County State Bank (3 branches, stress 50) in Austin, TX; Citizens State Bank (1 branch, stress 66) in Austin, TX; Lone Star Bank (1 branch, stress 58) in Austin, TX.
HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Austin County, TX with 123 units; 90 Austin, TX units are assisted, 1 Austin, TX properties under project-based Section 8.
2,191 of the 14,319 housing units in Austin, TX sit vacant. Austin County, TX permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Austin, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 297 units in Austin County, TX.