Blount County, AL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Blount County, Alabama is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. DLRadar scores 17 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. Lender pressure in Blount County registers 38/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 21 to 29 out of 100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.7% over the past year (phase confidence 22/100). With pricing topped out, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.7% YoY (22/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A mid-cycle 38/100 lender reading means both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 35146 (29/100), 35121 (28/100), 35126 (28/100), 35133 (28/100), 35013 (27/100), 35031 (27/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. The breakdown continues through 35049, 35079, 35097, 35180, 35952, 35976, 35016, 35172, 35957, 35980 and more.

Demographically, Blount County's scored ZIPs show median home values around $170,094 (below the national figure), a median age of 39.7, incomes around $65,914, poverty running near 14.3%, an owner-occupied share of 77%, a 11.7% vacancy rate. These fundamentals set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 26/100 over 17 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Blount County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Whether Blount County, Alabama carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Blount County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For anyone buying in Blount County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 29/100. What supports the Blount County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Blount County are 35146 (29/100), 35121 (28/100), 35126 (28/100), 35133 (28/100), 35013 (27/100), 35031 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 35049, 35079, 35097, 35180, 35952, 35976, 35016, 35172 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

The Blount County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.