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

Matagorda County, TX, Texas: 14 ZIP codes scored, Matagorda County, TX averaging 33/100 (moderate, Matagorda, TX), from 31 to 36. Matagorda County, TX is in its peak phase (Matagorda, TX confidence 9/100): Matagorda, TX home prices up 0.9% (Matagorda, TX) over twelve months. Matagorda County, TX lender headwind: 0/100.

Highest-scoring Matagorda County, TX ZIPs: 77480 (36/100), 77414 (33/100), 77415 (33/100), 77419 (33/100), 77428 (33/100), 77440 (33/100). Also scored in Matagorda County, TX: 77456, 77457, 77458, 77468, 77482, 77483, 77465, 77420.

Across Matagorda County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $198,325, household income $61,985, 30.8% vacancy, 18.4% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 42.9.

Matagorda County, TX insurance distress 79/100 (#387 in the US); FEMA hazard 74/100 for Matagorda, TX; 2 federal disaster declarations in Matagorda County, TX since 2023 (2 hurricane); 132 Matagorda, TX NFIP flood claims, $1.8M paid; Matagorda, TX construction distress 71/100.

6 banks with 8 branches lend in Matagorda County, TX; Matagorda, TX weighted bank stress 43/100, highest 77/100 in Matagorda, TX.

Matagorda County, TX unemployment 6.0% (Matagorda, TX +0.4 pts, six months); 208 new housing units permitted in Matagorda County, TX over twelve months, Matagorda, TX down 22% from 265; Matagorda, TX home prices +8.9% a year (Matagorda, TX) over three years.

19,058 housing units in Matagorda County, TX; 4,633 Matagorda, TX renter households; 49% of Matagorda, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Matagorda, TX) half or more.

Matagorda County, TX ranks #293 nationally on the opportunity index (Matagorda, TX, among all ranked counties); Matagorda, TX scores 34.8/100 and Matagorda, TX sits #44 inside Texas. Matagorda, TX is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Matagorda, TX's primary driver is vacancy, Matagorda, TX second driver construction; Matagorda, TX moved up 401 places. 1 short-sale listings across Matagorda, TX; 108 days on market observed in Matagorda, TX; 20.3% vacancy over 14 Matagorda, TX ZIPs.

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

Matagorda County, TX has 6 watched banks; 6 Matagorda, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Matagorda, TX footprints: First State Bank (2 branches, stress 46) in Matagorda, TX; Prosperity Bank (2 branches, stress 33) in Matagorda, TX; First National Bank Texas (1 branch, stress 77) in Matagorda, TX.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Matagorda County, TX with 121 units; 120 Matagorda, TX units are assisted, 1 Matagorda, TX properties under project-based Section 8.

3,619 of the 19,058 housing units in Matagorda, TX sit vacant. Matagorda County, TX permitted 5 multifamily units in twelve months; Matagorda, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 203 units in Matagorda County, TX.