Adair County, KY: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Adair County, Kentucky is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. DLRadar scores 11 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 19/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 17/100 (contained). ZIP-level distress ranges from 25/100 at the top down to 13/100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.3% over the past year, at 33/100 phase confidence. While the county appreciates, a subset takes on water where the composite stays elevated.

Through Adair County's +5.3% YoY climb (33/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster so buy those and momentum helps on exit. Lender stress at 17/100 (contained) puts the live signals on tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Adair County are 42743 (25/100), 42742 (22/100), 42753 (22/100), 42715 (21/100), 42728 (21/100), 42741 (21/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 42129, 42539, 42528, 42733, 42642.

By the numbers, Adair County's tracked footprint run typical home values near $163,280, residents with a median age around 38.1, 79% owner-occupancy, 14.4% of units sitting vacant, poverty running near 19.9%, incomes around $48,714. These fundamentals signal the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

With a low 19/100 reading over 11 ZIPs, Adair County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Adair County parcel's owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

The distress read for Adair County, Kentucky is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Adair County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

The practical read on Adair County, Kentucky is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Adair County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Adair County leads with 42743 (25/100), 42742 (22/100), 42753 (22/100), 42715 (21/100), 42728 (21/100), 42741 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 42129, 42539, 42528, 42733, 42642 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Adair County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.