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

Butler County, KY, Kentucky: 11 ZIP codes scored, Butler County, KY averaging 26/100 (low, Butler, KY), from 20 to 32. Butler County, KY is in its peak phase (Butler, KY confidence 18/100): Butler, KY home prices up 2.1% (Butler, KY) over twelve months. Butler County, KY lender headwind: 86/100.

Highest-scoring Butler County, KY ZIPs: 42101 (32/100), 42320 (30/100), 42333 (30/100), 42275 (29/100), 42252 (28/100), 42261 (28/100). Also scored in Butler County, KY: 42273, 42276, 42256, 42339, 42721.

Across Butler County, KY's scored ZIPs: median home value $142,711, household income $51,729, 13.2% vacancy, 21.1% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 40.1.

Butler County, KY insurance distress 84/100 (#254 in the US); FEMA hazard 84/100 for Butler, KY; 16 federal disaster declarations in Butler County, KY since 2023; 4 Butler, KY NFIP flood claims, $327K paid; Butler, KY construction distress 89/100.

2 banks with 4 branches lend in Butler County, KY; Butler, KY weighted bank stress 75/100, highest 82/100 in Butler, KY.

Butler County, KY unemployment 4.7% (Butler, KY -1.1 pts, six months); 1 new housing units permitted in Butler County, KY over twelve months, Butler, KY down 75% from 4.

5,455 housing units in Butler County, KY; 1,225 Butler, KY renter households; 33% of Butler, KY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Butler, KY) half or more.

Butler County, KY ranks #607 nationally on the opportunity index (Butler, KY, among all ranked counties); Butler, KY scores 32.9/100 and Butler, KY sits #48 inside Kentucky. Butler, KY is in the overheated opportunity phase; Butler, KY's primary driver is construction, Butler, KY second driver vacancy; Butler, KY moved down 554 places. 27 short-sale listings across Butler, KY; 12 days on market observed in Butler, KY; 14.4% vacancy over 11 Butler, KY ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Butler County, KY. The metro area reading for Butler, KY (Bowling Green, KY): 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Butler, KY's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.0% (Butler, KY, December 2025 data); Kentucky overall 1.0%.

Butler County, KY has 1 watched bank; 1 Butler, KY bank sits in an elevated band. Butler, KY footprints: Morgantown Bank&Trust Co Inc (3 branches, stress 82) in Butler, KY.

888 of the 5,455 housing units in Butler, KY sit vacant. Butler County, KY permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Butler, KY's one-to-four unit structures added 1 units in Butler County, KY.