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

Hale County, TX, Texas: 10 ZIP codes scored, Hale County, TX averaging 20/100 (low, Hale, TX), from 16 to 22. Hale County, TX is in its peak phase (Hale, TX confidence 9/100): Hale, TX home prices up 0.9% (Hale, TX) over twelve months. Hale County, TX lender headwind: 10/100.

Highest-scoring Hale County, TX ZIPs: 79021 (22/100), 79032 (22/100), 79041 (22/100), 79072 (22/100), 79073 (22/100), 79064 (20/100). Also scored in Hale County, TX: 79311, 79043, 79052, 79250.

Across Hale County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $102,843, household income $53,895, 24.2% vacancy, 13.2% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 39.4.

Hale County, TX insurance distress 0/100 (#3,082 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Hale, TX; Hale, TX construction distress 91/100.

9 banks with 13 branches lend in Hale County, TX; Hale, TX weighted bank stress 48/100, highest 77/100 in Hale, TX.

Hale County, TX unemployment 4.4% (Hale, TX -0.3 pts, six months); 1 new housing units permitted in Hale County, TX over twelve months, Hale, TX down 86% from 7; Hale, TX home prices +6.0% a year (Hale, TX) over three years.

13,392 housing units in Hale County, TX; 4,406 Hale, TX renter households; 37% of Hale, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Hale, TX) half or more.

Hale County, TX ranks #421 nationally on the opportunity index (Hale, TX, among all ranked counties); Hale, TX scores 33.8/100 and Hale, TX sits #58 inside Texas. Hale, TX is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Hale, TX's primary driver is construction, Hale, TX second driver vacancy; Hale, TX moved up 84 places. 81 days on market observed in Hale, TX; 17.4% vacancy over 10 Hale, TX ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Hale County, TX. The non-metro area reading for Hale, TX: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Hale, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.5% (Hale, TX, December 2025 data); Texas overall 1.2%.

Hale County, TX has 7 watched banks; 7 Hale, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Hale, TX footprints: First United Bank (4 branches, stress 48) in Hale, TX; First National Bank Texas (1 branch, stress 77) in Hale, TX; West Texas National Bank (1 branch, stress 58) in Hale, TX.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Hale County, TX with 85 units; 84 Hale, TX units are assisted, 2 Hale, TX properties under project-based Section 8.

2,368 of the 13,392 housing units in Hale, TX sit vacant. Hale County, TX permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Hale, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 1 units in Hale County, TX.