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

Across Knox County, Kentucky, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Coverage runs to 19 ZIPs across Knox County, a low 25/100 average. ZIP-level distress ranges from 33/100 at the top down to 23/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 66 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 4.4% over twelve months, a 22/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +4.4% YoY and 22/100 confidence, selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 66/100 lender headwind signals what's coming: banks under pressure move REO faster.

The sharpest Knox County readings come from 40734 (33/100), 40906 (30/100), 40771 (29/100), 40701 (27/100), 40939 (27/100), 40759 (25/100) — open any for the parcel detail. The breakdown continues through 40763, 40903, 40915, 40921, 40923, 40935, 40943, 40946, 40949, 40953 and more.

By the numbers, the Knox County ZIPs on file show a median age of 38.1, an owner-occupied share of 74%, incomes around $40,199, a 34.8% poverty rate, home values averaging roughly $99,700, below the US, a 20.9% vacancy rate. These fundamentals shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

All in at 25/100 over 19 ZIPs, Knox County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Knox County parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Because Knox County, Kentucky is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Knox County against neighboring markets or the rest of Kentucky on equal footing.

Approach Knox County by rank rather than by average — the 25/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. 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 Knox County data is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Knox County are 40734 (33/100), 40906 (30/100), 40771 (29/100), 40701 (27/100), 40939 (27/100), 40759 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 40763, 40903, 40915, 40921, 40923, 40935, 40943, 40946 and more 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.

Under Knox County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.