Where Are the Most Foreclosures in North Atlanta?
categories: Buyers, Foreclosures
NORTH ATLANTA - I was poking around in the MLS last night and started to do searches for foreclosures by county. Then I wondered where the most foreclosures are currently located. I’d love to give you a "heat map" of foreclosures in North Atlanta - and I’m working on a solution to do just that - but for now what I can give you is a breakdown of foreclosures by county.
Before you read on, which North Atlanta county do you think has the most number of foreclosures? Keep in mind that this statistic is completely irrelevant because it is not relative to anything, not county size, population, mean county income, county job growth or unemployment. It is just a number…still, kind of interesting.
So, what’s it going to be? Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth, Gwinnett or Fulton?
Foreclosures by County
| County | Number of Foreclosures |
|---|---|
| Cobb | 503 |
| Cherokee | 187 |
| Forsyth | 113 |
| Fulton | 1385 |
| North Fulton | 78 |
| Gwinnett | 889 |
Technically, the answer is Fulton, as you probably guessed. However, Fulton County is a very long skinny county with the bulk of the county land mass actually being south of Atlanta. If you consider only North Fulton in this exercise, that is, the area in Fulton County north of the Chattahoochee River, then Gwinnett County is the clear leader in number of foreclosures in North Atlanta.
Before I let you go, I thought that I’d just take a bit more granular look at where the foreclosures are in North Atlanta. Counties are very big and very diverse from one end to the other. Therefore, I looked at the individual MLS areas inside each county. You’ll need this map to cross-reference with,
North Atlanta MLS Areas (197.1 KiB, 166 hits)
Foreclosures by MLS Area
| County | MLS Area | Number of Foreclosures |
|---|---|---|
| Cherokee | 111 | 26 |
| Cherokee | 112 | 91 |
| Cherokee | 113 | 64 |
| Cherokee | 114 | 5 |
| Forsyth | 221 | 69 |
| Forsyth | 222 | 23 |
| Forsyth | 223 | 22 |
| N.Fulton | 13 | 40 |
| N.Fulton | 14 | 38 |
| E.Cobb | 81 | 30 |
| E.Cobb | 82 | 23 |
| E.Cobb | 83 | 19 |
| W.Cobb | 72 | 170 |
| W.Cobb | 73 | 130 |
| W.Cobb | 74 | 69 |
| W.Cobb | 75 | 61 |
| Gwinnett | 61 | 40 |
| Gwinnett | 62 | 142 |
| Gwinnett | 63 | 142 |
| Gwinnett | 64 | 218 |
With the existing search tools available for the Atlanta market, it is not possible to search online for just these foreclosures in the MLS. However, I’m working on a solution to meet that need…I just need a little more time to get it up and running. In the meantime, if you would like me to email you the foreclosure homes in any of these MLS areas, please just email me.
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