Nueces County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Nueces County, TX, Texas: 27 ZIP codes scored, Nueces County, TX averaging 34/100 (moderate, Nueces, TX), from 21 to 35. Nueces County, TX is in its peak phase (Nueces, TX confidence 11/100): Nueces, TX home prices up 0.1% (Nueces, TX) over twelve months, 4.1% under their peak. Nueces County, TX lender headwind: 37/100.
Highest-scoring Nueces County, TX ZIPs: 78330 (35/100), 78339 (35/100), 78343 (35/100), 78347 (35/100), 78351 (35/100), 78373 (35/100). Also scored in Nueces County, TX: 78380, 78401, 78402, 78404, 78405, 78406, 78407, 78408, 78409, 78410.
Across Nueces County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $186,657, household income $67,713, 19.4% vacancy, 17.9% poverty, 60% owner-occupied, median age 38.6.
Nueces County, TX insurance distress 84/100 (#262 in the US); FEMA hazard 84/100 for Nueces, TX; 3 federal disaster declarations in Nueces County, TX since 2023 (3 hurricane); 70 Nueces, TX NFIP flood claims, $884K paid; Nueces, TX construction distress 60/100.
16 banks with 69 branches lend in Nueces County, TX; Nueces, TX weighted bank stress 53/100, highest 87/100 in Nueces, TX.
Nueces County, TX unemployment 4.6% (Nueces, TX +0.1 pts, six months); 1,426 new housing units permitted in Nueces County, TX over twelve months, Nueces, TX down 10% from 1,585; Nueces, TX home prices +7.0% a year (Nueces, TX) over three years.
154,408 housing units in Nueces County, TX; 52,467 Nueces, TX renter households; 49% of Nueces, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Nueces, TX) half or more.
Nueces County, TX ranks #328 nationally on the opportunity index (Nueces, TX, among all ranked counties); Nueces, TX scores 34.5/100 and Nueces, TX sits #50 inside Texas. Nueces, TX is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Nueces, TX's primary driver is construction, Nueces, TX second driver vacancy; Nueces, TX moved up 319 places. 40 short-sale listings across Nueces, TX; 94 days on market observed in Nueces, TX; 11.7% vacancy over 27 Nueces, TX ZIPs.
1.2% of Nueces County, TX mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Nueces, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.3% (CFPB county sample). Nueces, TX's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Nueces, TX peak since 2008 was 4.2% in January 2010; Texas overall reads 1.2%.
Nueces County, TX has 12 watched banks; 12 Nueces, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Nueces, TX footprints: Prosperity Bank (15 branches, stress 33) in Nueces, TX; Frost Bank (7 branches, stress 69) in Nueces, TX; First National Bank Texas (6 branches, stress 77) in Nueces, TX.
HUD lists 22 assisted multifamily properties in Nueces County, TX with 1,917 units; 629 Nueces, TX units are assisted, 7 Nueces, TX properties under project-based Section 8.
23,248 of the 154,408 housing units in Nueces, TX sit vacant. Nueces County, TX permitted 118 multifamily units in twelve months; Nueces, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 1,308 units in Nueces County, TX.