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

Hancock County, KY, Kentucky: 5 ZIP codes scored, Hancock County, KY averaging 28/100 (low, Hancock, KY), from 25 to 35. Hancock County, KY is in its expansion phase (Hancock, KY confidence 33/100): Hancock, KY home prices up 5.3% (Hancock, KY) over twelve months. Hancock County, KY lender headwind: 67/100.

Highest-scoring Hancock County, KY ZIPs: 42366 (35/100), 42343 (28/100), 42351 (27/100), 42348 (25/100), 42368 (25/100).

Across Hancock County, KY's scored ZIPs: median home value $152,900, household income $71,454, 12.1% vacancy, 11.5% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 41.1.

Hancock County, KY insurance distress 66/100 (#731 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Hancock, KY; 10 federal disaster declarations in Hancock County, KY since 2023; 4 Hancock, KY NFIP flood claims, $22K paid; Hancock, KY construction distress 72/100.

2 banks with 4 branches lend in Hancock County, KY; Hancock, KY weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 74/100 in Hancock, KY.

Hancock County, KY unemployment 4.3% (Hancock, KY -0.3 pts, six months); 15 new housing units permitted in Hancock County, KY over twelve months, Hancock, KY up 15% from 13; Hancock, KY home prices +8.1% a year (Hancock, KY) over three years.

3,928 housing units in Hancock County, KY; 764 Hancock, KY renter households; 33% of Hancock, KY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Hancock, KY) half or more.

Hancock County, KY ranks #491 nationally on the opportunity index (Hancock, KY, among all ranked counties); Hancock, KY scores 33.5/100 and Hancock, KY sits #38 inside Kentucky. Hancock, KY is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Hancock, KY's primary driver is construction, Hancock, KY second driver bank institutional; Hancock, KY moved up 172 places. 2 short-sale listings across Hancock, KY; 117 days on market observed in Hancock, KY; 9.0% vacancy over 5 Hancock, KY ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Hancock County, KY. The non-metro area reading for Hancock, KY: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Hancock, KY's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Hancock, KY, December 2025 data); Kentucky overall 1.0%.

Hancock County, KY has 1 watched bank; 1 Hancock, KY bank sits in an elevated band. Hancock, KY footprints: Independence Bank Of Ky (2 branches, stress 74) in Hancock, KY.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Hancock County, KY with 92 units; 76 Hancock, KY units are assisted, 1 Hancock, KY properties under project-based Section 8.

290 of the 3,928 housing units in Hancock, KY sit vacant. Hancock County, KY permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Hancock, KY's one-to-four unit structures added 15 units in Hancock County, KY.