Ector County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Ector County, TX, Texas: 11 ZIP codes scored, Ector County, TX averaging 20/100 (low, Ector, TX), from 19 to 25. Ector County, TX is in its contraction phase (Ector, TX confidence 47/100): Ector, TX home prices down 0.7% (Ector, TX) over twelve months. Ector County, TX lender headwind: 23/100.

Highest-scoring Ector County, TX ZIPs: 79765 (25/100), 79766 (20/100), 79741 (19/100), 79758 (19/100), 79759 (19/100), 79761 (19/100). Also scored in Ector County, TX: 79762, 79763, 79764, 79769, 79776.

Across Ector County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $206,300, household income $73,386, 7.8% vacancy, 12.2% poverty, 69% owner-occupied, median age 33.1.

Ector County, TX insurance distress 29/100 (#1,683 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Ector, TX; 16 Ector, TX NFIP flood claims, $555K paid; Ector, TX construction distress 11/100.

18 banks with 36 branches lend in Ector County, TX; Ector, TX weighted bank stress 54/100, highest 77/100 in Ector, TX.

Ector County, TX unemployment 4.0%; 1,222 new housing units permitted in Ector County, TX over twelve months, Ector, TX up 45% from 845; Ector, TX home prices +5.3% a year (Ector, TX) over three years.

68,899 housing units in Ector County, TX; 22,205 Ector, TX renter households; 46% of Ector, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Ector, TX) half or more.

Ector County, TX ranks #2,565 nationally on the opportunity index (Ector, TX, among all ranked counties); Ector, TX scores 25.6/100 and Ector, TX sits #225 inside Texas. Ector, TX is in the weak opportunity phase; Ector, TX's primary driver is bank institutional, Ector, TX second driver vacancy; Ector, TX moved up 519 places. 21 short-sale listings across Ector, TX; 108 days on market observed in Ector, TX; 8.0% vacancy over 11 Ector, TX ZIPs.

2.3% of Ector County, TX mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Ector, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 5.2% (CFPB county sample). Ector, TX's ninety-day rate is up 0.8 points on twelve months earlier; the Ector, TX peak since 2008 was 2.8% in August 2010; Texas overall reads 1.2%.

Ector County, TX has 12 watched banks; 12 Ector, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Ector, TX footprints: Prosperity Bank (4 branches, stress 33) in Ector, TX; American Momentum Bank (4 branches, stress 26) in Ector, TX; First National Bank Texas (3 branches, stress 77) in Ector, TX.

HUD lists 13 assisted multifamily properties in Ector County, TX with 1,572 units; 344 Ector, TX units are assisted, 2 Ector, TX properties under project-based Section 8.

4,336 of the 68,899 housing units in Ector, TX sit vacant. Ector County, TX permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Ector, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 1,222 units in Ector County, TX.