ZIP 31217 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 31217 (Jones County, Georgia) lands at 22/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (79/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (70/100), structural risk (49/100), institutional ownership (48/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Structural risk reads 49/100 against active distress of 6/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.9% year on year, and 4% higher over three years, at 50/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

A median home runs $105,200 here, or 2.2 times local income. Vacancy runs 21.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 16,923 people live here, median age 40. About 9% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 69% owner-occupied to 31% rented. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. Households earn a median $43,821 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 7,834 housing units across 31217. On demographic stress specifically, 31217 scores 35/100. Roughly 29.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

Net-net, 31217 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.