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

Lamar County, TX, Texas: 14 ZIP codes scored, Lamar County, TX averaging 28/100 (low, Lamar, TX), from 18 to 30. Lamar County, TX is in its peak phase (Lamar, TX confidence 9/100): Lamar, TX home prices up 0.9% (Lamar, TX) over twelve months. Lamar County, TX lender headwind: 32/100.

Highest-scoring Lamar County, TX ZIPs: 75411 (30/100), 75416 (30/100), 75421 (30/100), 75434 (30/100), 75460 (30/100), 75462 (30/100). Also scored in Lamar County, TX: 75468, 75470, 75473, 75477, 75486, 75435, 75436, 75446.

Across Lamar County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $205,692, household income $61,743, 16.4% vacancy, 16.1% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 42.5.

Lamar County, TX insurance distress 66/100 (#738 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Lamar, TX; 2 federal disaster declarations in Lamar County, TX since 2023 (2 flood); 22 Lamar, TX NFIP flood claims, $750K paid; Lamar, TX construction distress 68/100.

8 banks with 14 branches lend in Lamar County, TX; Lamar, TX weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 80/100 in Lamar, TX.

Lamar County, TX unemployment 5.1% (Lamar, TX +0.5 pts, six months); 84 new housing units permitted in Lamar County, TX over twelve months, Lamar, TX down 19% from 104; Lamar, TX home prices +10.9% a year (Lamar, TX) over three years.

22,824 housing units in Lamar County, TX; 6,854 Lamar, TX renter households; 41% of Lamar, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Lamar, TX) half or more.

Lamar County, TX ranks #2,142 nationally on the opportunity index (Lamar, TX, among all ranked counties); Lamar, TX scores 27.2/100 and Lamar, TX sits #187 inside Texas. Lamar, TX is in the weak opportunity phase; Lamar, TX's primary driver is construction, Lamar, TX second driver vacancy; Lamar, TX moved down 425 places. 1 short-sale listings across Lamar, TX; 75 days on market observed in Lamar, TX; 11.1% vacancy over 14 Lamar, TX ZIPs.

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

Lamar County, TX has 6 watched banks; 6 Lamar, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Lamar, TX footprints: Lamar National Bank (2 branches, stress 80) in Lamar, TX; Peoples Bank (2 branches, stress 60) in Lamar, TX; First Federal Cmty Bank Ssb (2 branches, stress 60) in Lamar, TX.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Lamar County, TX with 186 units; 49 Lamar, TX units are assisted.

2,805 of the 22,824 housing units in Lamar, TX sit vacant. Lamar County, TX permitted 19 multifamily units in twelve months; Lamar, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 65 units in Lamar County, TX.