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

Kenton County, KY, Kentucky: 12 ZIP codes scored, Kenton County, KY averaging 28/100 (low, Kenton, KY), from 19 to 30. Kenton County, KY is in its peak phase (Kenton, KY confidence 24/100): Kenton, KY home prices up 3.5% (Kenton, KY) over twelve months. Kenton County, KY lender headwind: 47/100.

Highest-scoring Kenton County, KY ZIPs: 41011 (30/100), 41014 (30/100), 41015 (30/100), 41016 (30/100), 41017 (30/100), 41051 (30/100). Also scored in Kenton County, KY: 41063, 41018, 41094, 41042, 41033, 41030.

Across Kenton County, KY's scored ZIPs: median home value $233,142, household income $80,853, 9.0% vacancy, 12.2% poverty, 73% owner-occupied, median age 36.6.

Kenton County, KY insurance distress 72/100 (#573 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Kenton, KY; 8 federal disaster declarations in Kenton County, KY since 2023; 33 Kenton, KY NFIP flood claims, $724K paid; Kenton, KY construction distress 38/100.

18 banks with 45 branches lend in Kenton County, KY; Kenton, KY weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 85/100 in Kenton, KY.

Kenton County, KY unemployment 3.6% (Kenton, KY -0.5 pts, six months); 683 new housing units permitted in Kenton County, KY over twelve months, Kenton, KY up 11% from 615; Kenton, KY home prices +10.0% a year (Kenton, KY) over three years.

73,221 housing units in Kenton County, KY; 20,253 Kenton, KY renter households; 40% of Kenton, KY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Kenton, KY) half or more.

Kenton County, KY ranks #1,345 nationally on the opportunity index (Kenton, KY, among all ranked counties); Kenton, KY scores 30.0/100 and Kenton, KY sits #82 inside Kentucky. Kenton, KY is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Kenton, KY's primary driver is bank institutional, Kenton, KY second driver construction; Kenton, KY moved up 685 places. 73 short-sale listings across Kenton, KY; 62 days on market observed in Kenton, KY; 6.9% vacancy over 12 Kenton, KY ZIPs.

0.5% of Kenton County, KY mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Kenton, KY's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.8% (CFPB county sample). Kenton, KY's ninety-day rate is down 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Kenton, KY peak since 2008 was 3.7% in January 2012; Kentucky overall reads 1.0%.

Kenton County, KY has 7 watched banks; 7 Kenton, KY banks sit in an elevated band. Kenton, KY footprints: Heritage Bank Inc (5 branches, stress 80) in Kenton, KY; Central Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 56) in Kenton, KY; Republic Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 29) in Kenton, KY.

HUD lists 10 assisted multifamily properties in Kenton County, KY with 394 units; 274 Kenton, KY units are assisted, 4 Kenton, KY properties under project-based Section 8.

5,854 of the 73,221 housing units in Kenton, KY sit vacant. Kenton County, KY permitted 216 multifamily units in twelve months; Kenton, KY's one-to-four unit structures added 467 units in Kenton County, KY.