Barren County, KY: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Barren County, KY, Kentucky: 12 ZIP codes scored, Barren County, KY averaging 24/100 (low, Barren, KY), from 15 to 27. Barren County, KY is in its peak phase (Barren, KY confidence 22/100): Barren, KY home prices up 4.4% (Barren, KY) over twelve months. Barren County, KY lender headwind: 41/100.
Highest-scoring Barren County, KY ZIPs: 42123 (27/100), 42130 (27/100), 42131 (27/100), 42141 (27/100), 42156 (27/100), 42171 (27/100). Also scored in Barren County, KY: 42127, 42160, 42133, 42166, 42154, 42749.
Across Barren County, KY's scored ZIPs: median home value $170,530, household income $51,394, 16.9% vacancy, 19.4% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 44.3.
Barren County, KY insurance distress 40/100 (#1,303 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Barren, KY; 16 federal disaster declarations in Barren County, KY since 2023; Barren, KY construction distress 78/100.
9 banks with 18 branches lend in Barren County, KY; Barren, KY weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 76/100 in Barren, KY.
Barren County, KY unemployment 4.3% (Barren, KY -0.8 pts, six months); 166 new housing units permitted in Barren County, KY over twelve months, Barren, KY down 31% from 242; Barren, KY home prices +11.4% a year (Barren, KY) over three years.
20,283 housing units in Barren County, KY; 6,261 Barren, KY renter households; 42% of Barren, KY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Barren, KY) half or more.
Barren County, KY ranks #464 nationally on the opportunity index (Barren, KY, among all ranked counties); Barren, KY scores 33.6/100 and Barren, KY sits #35 inside Kentucky. Barren, KY is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Barren, KY's primary driver is construction, Barren, KY second driver bank institutional; Barren, KY moved up 127 places. 2 short-sale listings across Barren, KY; 102 days on market observed in Barren, KY; 10.8% vacancy over 12 Barren, KY ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Barren County, KY. The non-metro area reading for Barren, KY: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Barren, KY's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Barren, KY, December 2025 data); Kentucky overall 1.0%.
Barren County, KY has 5 watched banks; 5 Barren, KY banks sit in an elevated band. Barren, KY footprints: South Central Bank Inc (6 branches, stress 66) in Barren, KY; Edmonton State Bank (3 branches, stress 35) in Barren, KY; Peoples Bank (2 branches, stress 69) in Barren, KY.
2,266 of the 20,283 housing units in Barren, KY sit vacant. Barren County, KY permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Barren, KY's one-to-four unit structures added 166 units in Barren County, KY.