Newton County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Newton County, TX, Texas: 11 ZIP codes scored, Newton County, TX averaging 22/100 (low, Newton, TX), from 12 to 30. Newton County, TX is in its peak phase (Newton, TX confidence 22/100): Newton, TX home prices up 2.0% (Newton, TX) over twelve months. Newton County, TX lender headwind: 14/100.
Highest-scoring Newton County, TX ZIPs: 77632 (30/100), 75951 (29/100), 75956 (29/100), 77612 (27/100), 75933 (24/100), 75966 (24/100). Also scored in Newton County, TX: 75928, 75932, 75977, 77614, 75948.
Across Newton County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $130,220, household income $61,922, 25.0% vacancy, 19.9% poverty, 82% owner-occupied, median age 44.7.
Newton County, TX insurance distress 87/100 (#165 in the US); FEMA hazard 84/100 for Newton, TX; 4 federal disaster declarations in Newton County, TX since 2023 (2 hurricane, 2 flood); 27 Newton, TX NFIP flood claims, $1.5M paid; Newton, TX construction distress 22/100.
2 banks with 2 branches lend in Newton County, TX; Newton, TX weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 71/100 in Newton, TX.
Newton County, TX unemployment 6.8% (Newton, TX +0.5 pts, six months).
6,492 housing units in Newton County, TX; 904 Newton, TX renter households; 20% of Newton, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 10% (Newton, TX) half or more.
Newton County, TX ranks #633 nationally on the opportunity index (Newton, TX, among all ranked counties); Newton, TX scores 32.7/100 and Newton, TX sits #82 inside Texas. Newton, TX is in the overheated opportunity phase; Newton, TX's primary driver is vacancy, Newton, TX second driver bank institutional; Newton, TX moved down 131 places. 4 short-sale listings across Newton, TX; 48 days on market observed in Newton, TX; 19.4% vacancy over 11 Newton, TX ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Newton County, TX. The non-metro area reading for Newton, TX: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Newton, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.5% (Newton, TX, December 2025 data); Texas overall 1.2%.
Newton County, TX has 2 watched banks; 2 Newton, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Newton, TX footprints: Stellar Bank (1 branch, stress 71) in Newton, TX; First Financial Bank (1 branch, stress 49) in Newton, TX.
1,651 of the 6,492 housing units in Newton, TX sit vacant.