Fort Bend County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Fort Bend County, TX, Texas: 35 ZIP codes scored, Fort Bend County, TX averaging 35/100 (moderate, Fort Bend, TX), from 30 to 36. Fort Bend County, TX is in its recovery phase (Fort Bend, TX confidence 17/100): Fort Bend, TX home prices up 2.7% (Fort Bend, TX) over twelve months. Fort Bend County, TX lender headwind: 39/100.

Highest-scoring Fort Bend County, TX ZIPs: 77031 (36/100), 77082 (36/100), 77085 (36/100), 77099 (36/100), 77430 (36/100), 77583 (36/100). Also scored in Fort Bend County, TX: 77584, 77053, 77083, 77406, 77407, 77417, 77441, 77444, 77450, 77451.

Across Fort Bend County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $304,962, household income $107,021, 7.5% vacancy, 13.4% poverty, 71% owner-occupied, median age 39.3.

Fort Bend County, TX insurance distress 80/100 (#350 in the US); FEMA hazard 74/100 for Fort Bend, TX; 2 federal disaster declarations in Fort Bend County, TX since 2023 (2 hurricane); 153 Fort Bend, TX NFIP flood claims, $2.9M paid; Fort Bend, TX construction distress 59/100.

45 banks with 154 branches lend in Fort Bend County, TX; Fort Bend, TX weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 87/100 in Fort Bend, TX.

Fort Bend County, TX unemployment 4.8% (Fort Bend, TX +0.2 pts, six months); 11,122 new housing units permitted in Fort Bend County, TX over twelve months, Fort Bend, TX down 9% from 12,227; Fort Bend, TX home prices +10.0% a year (Fort Bend, TX) over three years.

305,633 housing units in Fort Bend County, TX; 63,338 Fort Bend, TX renter households; 48% of Fort Bend, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Fort Bend, TX) half or more.

Fort Bend County, TX ranks #1,429 nationally on the opportunity index (Fort Bend, TX, among all ranked counties); Fort Bend, TX scores 29.7/100 and Fort Bend, TX sits #142 inside Texas. Fort Bend, TX is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Fort Bend, TX's primary driver is construction, Fort Bend, TX second driver bank institutional; Fort Bend, TX moved up 836 places. 315 short-sale listings across Fort Bend, TX; 108 days on market observed in Fort Bend, TX; 4.4% vacancy over 35 Fort Bend, TX ZIPs.

1.2% of Fort Bend County, TX mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Fort Bend, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.6% (CFPB county sample). Fort Bend, TX's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Fort Bend, TX peak since 2008 was 3.5% in January 2010; Texas overall reads 1.2%.

Fort Bend County, TX has 22 watched banks; 22 Fort Bend, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Fort Bend, TX footprints: Prosperity Bank (9 branches, stress 33) in Fort Bend, TX; Frost Bank (6 branches, stress 69) in Fort Bend, TX; Woodforest National Bank (6 branches, stress 54) in Fort Bend, TX.

HUD lists 16 assisted multifamily properties in Fort Bend County, TX with 2,491 units; 207 Fort Bend, TX units are assisted, 3 Fort Bend, TX properties under project-based Section 8.

12,920 of the 305,633 housing units in Fort Bend, TX sit vacant. Fort Bend County, TX permitted 1,815 multifamily units in twelve months; Fort Bend, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 9,307 units in Fort Bend County, TX.