Denton County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Denton County, TX, Texas: 40 ZIP codes scored, Denton County, TX averaging 31/100 (moderate, Denton, TX), from 21 to 33. Denton County, TX is in its peak phase (Denton, TX confidence 9/100): Denton, TX home prices up 0.9% (Denton, TX) over twelve months. Denton County, TX lender headwind: 48/100.
Highest-scoring Denton County, TX ZIPs: 75009 (33/100), 75019 (33/100), 75024 (33/100), 75033 (33/100), 75034 (33/100), 75078 (33/100). Also scored in Denton County, TX: 75093, 75287, 75007, 75010, 75022, 75028, 75036, 75056, 75057, 75065.
Across Denton County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $459,800, household income $120,751, 5.3% vacancy, 7.1% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 37.1.
Denton County, TX insurance distress 65/100 (#762 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Denton, TX; 2 federal disaster declarations in Denton County, TX since 2023 (2 flood); 28 Denton, TX NFIP flood claims, $624K paid; Denton, TX construction distress 60/100.
42 banks with 163 branches lend in Denton County, TX; Denton, TX weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 93/100 in Denton, TX.
Denton County, TX unemployment 4.2% (Denton, TX +0.3 pts, six months); 9,459 new housing units permitted in Denton County, TX over twelve months, Denton, TX down 9% from 10,414; Denton, TX home prices +8.9% a year (Denton, TX) over three years.
376,754 housing units in Denton County, TX; 120,115 Denton, TX renter households; 48% of Denton, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Denton, TX) half or more.
Denton County, TX ranks #2,853 nationally on the opportunity index (Denton, TX, among all ranked counties); Denton, TX scores 24.1/100 and Denton, TX sits #242 inside Texas. Denton, TX is in the weak opportunity phase; Denton, TX's primary driver is construction, Denton, TX second driver bank institutional; Denton, TX moved down 26 places. 46 short-sale listings across Denton, TX; 105 days on market observed in Denton, TX; 4.6% vacancy over 40 Denton, TX ZIPs.
0.7% of Denton County, TX mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Denton, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.9% (CFPB county sample). Denton, TX's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Denton, TX peak since 2008 was 3.2% in December 2009; Texas overall reads 1.2%.
Denton County, TX has 25 watched banks; 25 Denton, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Denton, TX footprints: Pointbank (9 branches, stress 82) in Denton, TX; First National Bank Texas (9 branches, stress 77) in Denton, TX; Frost Bank (6 branches, stress 69) in Denton, TX.
HUD lists 44 assisted multifamily properties in Denton County, TX with 5,873 units; 83 Denton, TX units are assisted, 1 Denton, TX properties under project-based Section 8.
16,362 of the 376,754 housing units in Denton, TX sit vacant. Denton County, TX permitted 2,738 multifamily units in twelve months; Denton, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 6,721 units in Denton County, TX.