Fayette County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Fayette County, TX, Texas: 15 ZIP codes scored, Fayette County, TX averaging 25/100 (low, Fayette, TX), from 16 to 29. Fayette County, TX is in its peak phase (Fayette, TX confidence 22/100): Fayette, TX home prices up 2.0% (Fayette, TX) over twelve months. Fayette County, TX lender headwind: 0/100.
Highest-scoring Fayette County, TX ZIPs: 78959 (29/100), 78932 (28/100), 78950 (28/100), 78956 (28/100), 78938 (27/100), 78949 (27/100). Also scored in Fayette County, TX: 78963, 78940, 78945, 78954, 78962, 78941, 78957, 78942, 78946.
Across Fayette County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $275,921, household income $71,582, 25.6% vacancy, 9.0% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 49.4.
Fayette County, TX insurance distress 57/100 (#983 in the US); FEMA hazard 84/100 for Fayette, TX; 3 federal disaster declarations in Fayette County, TX since 2023 (3 hurricane); 1 Fayette, TX NFIP flood claims; Fayette, TX construction distress 85/100.
8 banks with 17 branches lend in Fayette County, TX; Fayette, TX weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 87/100 in Fayette, TX.
Fayette County, TX unemployment 4.4% (Fayette, TX +0.4 pts, six months); 11 new housing units permitted in Fayette County, TX over twelve months, Fayette, TX down 58% from 26; Fayette, TX home prices +10.5% a year (Fayette, TX) over three years.
13,233 housing units in Fayette County, TX; 1,996 Fayette, TX renter households; 37% of Fayette, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Fayette, TX) half or more.
Fayette County, TX ranks #760 nationally on the opportunity index (Fayette, TX, among all ranked counties); Fayette, TX scores 32.1/100 and Fayette, TX sits #91 inside Texas. Fayette, TX is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Fayette, TX's primary driver is vacancy, Fayette, TX second driver construction; Fayette, TX moved down 510 places. 3 short-sale listings across Fayette, TX; 41 days on market observed in Fayette, TX; 23.7% vacancy over 15 Fayette, TX ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Fayette County, TX. The non-metro area reading for Fayette, TX: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Fayette, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.5% (Fayette, TX, December 2025 data); Texas overall 1.2%.
Fayette County, TX has 6 watched banks; 6 Fayette, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Fayette, TX footprints: Fayette Savings Bank Ssb (4 branches, stress 53) in Fayette, TX; Prosperity Bank (3 branches, stress 33) in Fayette, TX; Round Top State Bank (2 branches, stress 64) in Fayette, TX.
2,830 of the 13,233 housing units in Fayette, TX sit vacant. Fayette County, TX permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Fayette, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 11 units in Fayette County, TX.