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

For Fayette County, Texas, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. DLRadar scores 15 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 17 to 30 out of 100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 0/100 — low.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.0% over the past year (phase confidence 22/100). At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Fayette County's topped-out +2.0% YoY (22/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Lender stress at 0/100 (low) favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.

The sharpest Fayette County readings come from 78959 (30/100), 78932 (29/100), 78956 (29/100), 78938 (28/100), 78949 (28/100), 78963 (28/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Further scored ZIPs: 78940, 78945, 78954, 78950, 78941, 78962, 78942, 78957, 78946.

On the housing-and-income side, Fayette County's tracked footprint show 85% of homes owner-occupied, a median household income near $71,582 (near the US norm), home values averaging roughly $275,921, below the US, vacancy near 25.6%, residents with a median age around 49.4, poverty running near 9%. These fundamentals shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

With a low 26/100 reading over 15 ZIPs, Fayette County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Fayette County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Because Fayette County, Texas is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Fayette County against neighboring markets or the rest of Texas on equal footing.

Treat Fayette County, Texas as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Fayette County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Fayette County leads with 78959 (30/100), 78932 (29/100), 78956 (29/100), 78938 (28/100), 78949 (28/100), 78963 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 78940, 78945, 78954, 78950, 78941, 78962, 78942, 78957 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Fayette County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.