Barren County, KY: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Barren County, Kentucky is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 41/100 (moderate). Coverage runs to 12 ZIPs across Barren County, a low 22/100 average. The county's ZIP scores run from 15 up to 25/100.
In its peak phase, Barren County home prices rose 4.4% across the last year, a 22/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.
Near the cycle top at +4.4% YoY (22/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A moderate 41/100 lender headwind means both signal sets in play here.
By composite, 42123 (25/100), 42130 (25/100), 42131 (25/100), 42141 (25/100), 42156 (25/100), 42127 (24/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. The breakdown continues through 42171, 42160, 42133, 42154, 42166, 42749 and more.
On the housing-and-income side, Barren County's scored ZIPs report incomes around $51,394, a median age of 44.3, a 16.9% vacancy rate, home values averaging roughly $170,530, below the US, a 19.4% poverty rate, 79% of homes owner-occupied. Numbers like these set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.
At 22/100 composite over 12 ZIPs, Barren County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Barren County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.
Because Barren County, Kentucky is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Barren County against neighboring markets or the rest of Kentucky on equal footing.
The way to work Barren County, Kentucky is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 25/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Barren County with undifferentiated outreach. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Barren County data is thin.
At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Barren County are 42123 (25/100), 42130 (25/100), 42131 (25/100), 42141 (25/100), 42156 (25/100), 42127 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 42171, 42160, 42133, 42154, 42166, 42749 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.
DLRadar's composite for Barren 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.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42123 | KY | 25 | |||
| 42130 | KY | 25 | |||
| 42131 | KY | 25 | |||
| 42141 | KY | 25 | |||
| 42156 | KY | 25 | |||
| 42127 | KY | 24 | |||
| 42171 | KY | 24 | |||
| 42160 | KY | 21 |
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