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

Kaufman County, TX, Texas: 13 ZIP codes scored, Kaufman County, TX averaging 29/100 (low, Kaufman, TX), from 25 to 32. Kaufman County, TX is in its peak phase (Kaufman, TX confidence 9/100): Kaufman, TX home prices up 0.9% (Kaufman, TX) over twelve months. Kaufman County, TX lender headwind: 78/100.

Highest-scoring Kaufman County, TX ZIPs: 75159 (32/100), 75114 (30/100), 75126 (30/100), 75142 (30/100), 75143 (30/100), 75156 (30/100). Also scored in Kaufman County, TX: 75157, 75158, 75161, 75160, 75147, 75169, 75474.

Across Kaufman County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $249,685, household income $82,142, 10.3% vacancy, 11.2% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 40.5.

Kaufman County, TX insurance distress 69/100 (#680 in the US); FEMA hazard 59/100 for Kaufman, TX; 3 federal disaster declarations in Kaufman County, TX since 2023 (3 flood); 10 Kaufman, TX NFIP flood claims, $377K paid; Kaufman, TX construction distress 62/100.

11 banks with 19 branches lend in Kaufman County, TX; Kaufman, TX weighted bank stress 68/100, highest 89/100 in Kaufman, TX.

Kaufman County, TX unemployment 4.7% (Kaufman, TX +0.3 pts, six months); 1,137 new housing units permitted in Kaufman County, TX over twelve months, Kaufman, TX down 12% from 1,298; Kaufman, TX home prices +8.7% a year (Kaufman, TX) over three years.

54,130 housing units in Kaufman County, TX; 10,641 Kaufman, TX renter households; 51% of Kaufman, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Kaufman, TX) half or more.

Kaufman County, TX ranks #2,439 nationally on the opportunity index (Kaufman, TX, among all ranked counties); Kaufman, TX scores 26.1/100 and Kaufman, TX sits #218 inside Texas. Kaufman, TX is in the weak opportunity phase; Kaufman, TX's primary driver is construction, Kaufman, TX second driver bank institutional; Kaufman, TX moved down 14 places. 5 short-sale listings across Kaufman, TX; 63 days on market observed in Kaufman, TX; 6.1% vacancy over 13 Kaufman, TX ZIPs.

1.9% of Kaufman County, TX mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Kaufman, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 4.2% (CFPB county sample). Kaufman, TX's ninety-day rate is up 0.5 points on twelve months earlier; the Kaufman, TX peak since 2008 was 5.6% in November 2009; Texas overall reads 1.2%.

Kaufman County, TX has 7 watched banks; 7 Kaufman, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Kaufman, TX footprints: American Nb Of Texas (5 branches, stress 89) in Kaufman, TX; First State Bank (2 branches, stress 54) in Kaufman, TX; Texas Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 50) in Kaufman, TX.

HUD lists 6 assisted multifamily properties in Kaufman County, TX with 949 units; 68 Kaufman, TX units are assisted, 1 Kaufman, TX properties under project-based Section 8.

3,140 of the 54,130 housing units in Kaufman, TX sit vacant. Kaufman County, TX permitted 34 multifamily units in twelve months; Kaufman, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 1,103 units in Kaufman County, TX.