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

For Laurel County, Kentucky, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. ZIP-level distress ranges from 34/100 at the top down to 27/100. Coverage runs to 8 ZIPs across Laurel County, a moderate 33/100 average. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 54/100 (moderate).

Currently peak, Laurel County saw prices rise 4.4% year over year, at 22/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +4.4% YoY (22/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A moderate 54/100 lender headwind points to both signal sets in play here.

Highest scores land in 40729 (34/100), 40737 (34/100), 40740 (34/100), 40741 (34/100), 40744 (34/100), 40962 (34/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Also scored across the county: 40734, 40701.

On the housing-and-income side, Laurel County's tracked footprint report incomes around $52,617, a 23.5% poverty rate, home values averaging roughly $136,175, below the US, 75% owner-occupancy, vacancy near 9.8%, residents with a median age around 39.3. These fundamentals set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a moderate 33/100 reading over 8 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Laurel County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Whether Laurel County, Kentucky carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Laurel County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For anyone buying in Laurel County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 34/100. What supports the Laurel County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Laurel County are 40729 (34/100), 40737 (34/100), 40740 (34/100), 40741 (34/100), 40744 (34/100), 40962 (34/100). DLRadar also scores 40734, 40701 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 Laurel 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.