Ward County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Ward County, TX, Texas: 6 ZIP codes scored, Ward County, TX averaging 6/100 (minimal, Ward, TX), from 6 to 8. Ward County, TX is in its peak phase (Ward, TX confidence 22/100): Ward, TX home prices up 2.0% (Ward, TX) over twelve months. Ward County, TX lender headwind: 18/100.
Highest-scoring Ward County, TX ZIPs: 79772 (8/100), 79719 (6/100), 79742 (6/100), 79756 (6/100), 79777 (6/100), 79788 (6/100).
Across Ward County, TX's scored ZIPs: median home value $160,720, household income $64,427, 21.1% vacancy, 15.5% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 34.3.
Ward County, TX insurance distress 0/100 (#3,117 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Ward, TX; Ward, TX construction distress 35/100.
3 banks with 4 branches lend in Ward County, TX; Ward, TX weighted bank stress 44/100, highest 56/100 in Ward, TX.
Ward County, TX unemployment 4.0% (Ward, TX +0.3 pts, six months); 15 new housing units permitted in Ward County, TX over twelve months, Ward, TX up 15% from 13; Ward, TX home prices +3.6% a year (Ward, TX) over three years.
5,165 housing units in Ward County, TX; 937 Ward, TX renter households; 34% of Ward, TX renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Ward, TX) half or more.
Ward County, TX ranks #1,538 nationally on the opportunity index (Ward, TX, among all ranked counties); Ward, TX scores 29.3/100 and Ward, TX sits #153 inside Texas. Ward, TX is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Ward, TX's primary driver is vacancy, Ward, TX second driver bank institutional; Ward, TX moved up 963 places. 2 short-sale listings across Ward, TX; 87 days on market observed in Ward, TX; 14.9% vacancy over 6 Ward, TX ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Ward County, TX. The non-metro area reading for Ward, TX: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Ward, TX's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.5% (Ward, TX, December 2025 data); Texas overall 1.2%.
Ward County, TX has 3 watched banks; 3 Ward, TX banks sit in an elevated band. Ward, TX footprints: City Bank (2 branches, stress 56) in Ward, TX; Maverick Bank (1 branch, stress 36) in Ward, TX; American Momentum Bank (1 branch, stress 26) in Ward, TX.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Ward County, TX with 49 units.
777 of the 5,165 housing units in Ward, TX sit vacant. Ward County, TX permitted 5 multifamily units in twelve months; Ward, TX's one-to-four unit structures added 10 units in Ward County, TX.