Rusk County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Rusk County, TX, Texas: 20 ZIP codes scored, Rusk County, TX averaging 23/100 (low, Rusk, TX), from 17 to 32. Rusk County, TX is in its recovery phase (Rusk, TX confidence 19/100): Rusk, TX home prices up 2.8% (Rusk, TX) over twelve months. Rusk County, TX lender headwind: 36/100.
Highest-scoring Rusk County, TX ZIPs: 75603 (32/100), 75662 (29/100), 75760 (29/100), 75946 (29/100), 75641 (27/100), 75789 (26/100). Also scored in Rusk County, TX: 75784, 75684, 75669, 75652, 75654, 75658, 75667, 75680, 75681, 75682.
Across Rusk County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $154,613, household income $67,876, 18.0% vacancy, 15.0% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 44.6.
Rusk County, TX insurance distress 77/100 (#454 in the US); FEMA hazard 91/100 for Rusk, TX; 6 federal disaster declarations in Rusk County, TX since 2023 (3 hurricane, 3 flood); 2 Rusk, TX NFIP flood claims, $3K paid; Rusk, TX construction distress 11/100.
6 banks with 12 branches lend in Rusk County, TX; Rusk, TX weighted bank stress 55/100, highest 64/100 in Rusk, TX.
Rusk County, TX unemployment 4.8% (Rusk, TX +0.2 pts, six months); 7 new housing units permitted in Rusk County, TX over twelve months, Rusk, TX up 600% from 1; Rusk, TX home prices +11.3% a year (Rusk, TX) over three years.
21,311 housing units in Rusk County, TX; 3,590 Rusk, TX renter households; 40% of Rusk, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Rusk, TX) half or more.
Rusk County, TX ranks #376 nationally on the opportunity index (Rusk, TX, among all ranked counties); Rusk, TX scores 34.1/100 and Rusk, TX sits #52 inside Texas. Rusk, TX is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Rusk, TX's primary driver is vacancy, Rusk, TX second driver bank institutional; Rusk, TX moved up 723 places. 5 short-sale listings across Rusk, TX; 99 days on market observed in Rusk, TX; 15.4% vacancy over 20 Rusk, TX ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Rusk County, TX. The metro area reading for Rusk, TX (Longview, TX): 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Rusk, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.3% (Rusk, TX, December 2025 data); Texas overall 1.2%.
Rusk County, TX has 5 watched banks; 5 Rusk, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Rusk, TX footprints: Texas Bank (4 branches, stress 64) in Rusk, TX; Verabank National Assn (4 branches, stress 53) in Rusk, TX; Woodforest National Bank (1 branch, stress 54) in Rusk, TX.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Rusk County, TX with 31 units; 31 Rusk, TX units are assisted, 1 Rusk, TX properties under project-based Section 8.
3,284 of the 21,311 housing units in Rusk, TX sit vacant. Rusk County, TX permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Rusk, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 7 units in Rusk County, TX.