Knox County, KY: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Knox County, KY, Kentucky: 19 ZIP codes scored, Knox County, KY averaging 25/100 (low, Knox, KY), from 23 to 34. Knox County, KY is in its peak phase (Knox, KY confidence 22/100): Knox, KY home prices up 4.4% (Knox, KY) over twelve months. Knox County, KY lender headwind: 66/100.
Highest-scoring Knox County, KY ZIPs: 40734 (34/100), 40906 (28/100), 40771 (27/100), 40939 (27/100), 40701 (26/100), 40903 (24/100). Also scored in Knox County, KY: 40915, 40921, 40923, 40935, 40943, 40946, 40949, 40953, 40982, 40995.
Across Knox County, KY's scored ZIPs: median home value $99,700, household income $40,199, 20.9% vacancy, 34.8% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 38.1.
Knox County, KY insurance distress 70/100 (#629 in the US); FEMA hazard 74/100 for Knox, KY; 12 federal disaster declarations in Knox County, KY since 2023; 7 Knox, KY NFIP flood claims, $17K paid; Knox, KY construction distress 13/100.
6 banks with 11 branches lend in Knox County, KY; Knox, KY weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 86/100 in Knox, KY.
Knox County, KY unemployment 5.8% (Knox, KY -0.1 pts, six months); Knox, KY home prices +11.0% a year (Knox, KY) over three years.
13,866 housing units in Knox County, KY; 3,901 Knox, KY renter households; 33% of Knox, KY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Knox, KY) half or more.
Knox County, KY ranks #762 nationally on the opportunity index (Knox, KY, among all ranked counties); Knox, KY scores 32.1/100 and Knox, KY sits #52 inside Kentucky. Knox, KY is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Knox, KY's primary driver is vacancy, Knox, KY second driver bank institutional; Knox, KY moved up 89 places. 4 short-sale listings across Knox, KY; 79 days on market observed in Knox, KY; 17.1% vacancy over 19 Knox, KY ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Knox County, KY. The non-metro area reading for Knox, KY: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Knox, KY's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Knox, KY, December 2025 data); Kentucky overall 1.0%.
Knox County, KY has 4 watched banks; 4 Knox, KY banks sit in an elevated band. Knox, KY footprints: Hometown Bank Of Corbin Inc (2 branches, stress 86) in Knox, KY; Forcht Bank National Assn (2 branches, stress 80) in Knox, KY; Cumberland Valley Nb&T Co (1 branch, stress 70) in Knox, KY.
HUD lists 4 assisted multifamily properties in Knox County, KY with 200 units; 198 Knox, KY units are assisted, 4 Knox, KY properties under project-based Section 8.
2,155 of the 13,866 housing units in Knox, KY sit vacant.