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

Across Lee County, Kentucky, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 13 to 31 out of 100. Lender pressure in Lee County registers 54/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Coverage runs to 6 ZIPs across Lee County, a low 19/100 average.

Currently expansion, Lee County saw prices rise 5.3% year over year, at 33/100 phase confidence. Under a rising market, some owners fall behind anyway so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

With growth of +5.3% YoY (33/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. A moderate 54/100 lender headwind means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 40336 (31/100), 41339 (24/100), 41311 (17/100), 41397 (17/100), 41314 (14/100), 41301 (13/100), listed with every scored ZIP below.

On the housing-and-income side, Lee County's tracked footprint run home values averaging roughly $92,320, below the US, 75% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $39,267, below the national median, a median age of 46.3, 26.8% of households below the poverty line, vacancy near 17%. Read together, they set up the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

All in at 19/100 over 6 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Lee County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Whether Lee 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 Lee County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For anyone buying in Lee County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 31/100. The Lee County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Lee County leads with 40336 (31/100), 41339 (24/100), 41311 (17/100), 41397 (17/100), 41314 (14/100), 41301 (13/100). Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Lee 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.