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

Lee County, KY, Kentucky: 6 ZIP codes scored, Lee County, KY averaging 19/100 (low, Lee, KY), from 13 to 31. Lee County, KY is in its expansion phase (Lee, KY confidence 33/100): Lee, KY home prices up 5.3% (Lee, KY) over twelve months. Lee County, KY lender headwind: 54/100.

Highest-scoring Lee County, KY ZIPs: 40336 (31/100), 41339 (24/100), 41311 (17/100), 41397 (17/100), 41314 (14/100), 41301 (13/100).

Across Lee County, KY's scored ZIPs: median home value $92,320, household income $39,267, 17.0% vacancy, 26.8% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 46.3.

Lee County, KY insurance distress 89/100 (#131 in the US); FEMA hazard 90/100 for Lee, KY; 18 federal disaster declarations in Lee County, KY since 2023; 9 Lee, KY NFIP flood claims, $582K paid; Lee, KY construction distress 2/100.

3 banks with 3 branches lend in Lee County, KY; Lee, KY weighted bank stress 70/100, highest 76/100 in Lee, KY.

Lee County, KY unemployment 4.3% (Lee, KY -0.9 pts, six months).

3,229 housing units in Lee County, KY; 651 Lee, KY renter households; 44% of Lee, KY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Lee, KY) half or more.

Lee County, KY ranks #209 nationally on the opportunity index (Lee, KY, among all ranked counties); Lee, KY scores 35.8/100 and Lee, KY sits #19 inside Kentucky. Lee, KY is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Lee, KY's primary driver is vacancy, Lee, KY second driver bank institutional; Lee, KY moved up 90 places. 6 short-sale listings across Lee, KY; 135 days on market observed in Lee, KY; 19.8% vacancy over 6 Lee, KY ZIPs.

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

Lee County, KY has 3 watched banks; 3 Lee, KY banks sit in an elevated band. Lee, KY footprints: Farmers State Bank (1 branch, stress 76) in Lee, KY; Citizens B&T Co Of Jackson (1 branch, stress 68) in Lee, KY; Peoples Exchange Bank (1 branch, stress 66) in Lee, KY.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Lee County, KY with 128 units; 128 Lee, KY units are assisted, 2 Lee, KY properties under project-based Section 8.

634 of the 3,229 housing units in Lee, KY sit vacant.