Houston County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Houston County, TX, Texas: 8 ZIP codes scored, Houston County, TX averaging 29/100 (low, Houston, TX), from 23 to 32. Houston County, TX is in its peak phase (Houston, TX confidence 22/100): Houston, TX home prices up 2.0% (Houston, TX) over twelve months. Houston County, TX lender headwind: 14/100.
Highest-scoring Houston County, TX ZIPs: 75856 (32/100), 75835 (31/100), 75847 (31/100), 75849 (31/100), 75851 (31/100), 75858 (31/100). Also scored in Houston County, TX: 75839, 75844.
Across Houston County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $147,967, household income $57,767, 35.2% vacancy, 13.4% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 41.1.
Houston County, TX insurance distress 74/100 (#540 in the US); FEMA hazard 84/100 for Houston, TX; 4 federal disaster declarations in Houston County, TX since 2023 (2 hurricane, 2 flood); 1 Houston, TX NFIP flood claims, $15K paid; Houston, TX construction distress 89/100.
7 banks with 9 branches lend in Houston County, TX; Houston, TX weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 76/100 in Houston, TX.
Houston County, TX unemployment 4.6%; Houston, TX home prices +10.1% a year (Houston, TX) over three years.
10,837 housing units in Houston County, TX; 2,430 Houston, TX renter households; 38% of Houston, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Houston, TX) half or more.
Houston County, TX ranks #48 nationally on the opportunity index (Houston, TX, among all ranked counties); Houston, TX scores 38.7/100 and Houston, TX sits #8 inside Texas. Houston, TX is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Houston, TX's primary driver is vacancy, Houston, TX second driver construction; Houston, TX moved up 22 places. 3 short-sale listings across Houston, TX; 69 days on market observed in Houston, TX; 28.3% vacancy over 8 Houston, TX ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Houston County, TX. The non-metro area reading for Houston, TX: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Houston, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.5% (Houston, TX, December 2025 data); Texas overall 1.2%.
Houston County, TX has 7 watched banks; 7 Houston, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Houston, TX footprints: Dominion Bank (2 branches, stress 68) in Houston, TX; Prosperity Bank (2 branches, stress 33) in Houston, TX; Sunflower Bank National Assn (1 branch, stress 76) in Houston, TX.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Houston County, TX with 70 units; 70 Houston, TX units are assisted, 1 Houston, TX properties under project-based Section 8.
2,854 of the 10,837 housing units in Houston, TX sit vacant.