Lyon County, KY: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lyon County, KY, Kentucky: 4 ZIP codes scored, Lyon County, KY averaging 22/100 (low, Lyon, KY), from 18 to 27. Lyon County, KY is in its expansion phase (Lyon, KY confidence 33/100): Lyon, KY home prices up 5.3% (Lyon, KY) over twelve months. Lyon County, KY lender headwind: 58/100.
Highest-scoring Lyon County, KY ZIPs: 42445 (27/100), 42411 (25/100), 42038 (18/100), 42055 (18/100).
Across Lyon County, KY's scored ZIPs: median home value $148,250, household income $59,113, 22.0% vacancy, 12.2% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 46.7.
Lyon County, KY insurance distress 38/100 (#1,377 in the US); FEMA hazard 74/100 for Lyon, KY; 12 federal disaster declarations in Lyon County, KY since 2023; Lyon, KY construction distress 52/100.
4 banks with 4 branches lend in Lyon County, KY; Lyon, KY weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 74/100 in Lyon, KY.
Lyon County, KY unemployment 4.2% (Lyon, KY -1.8 pts, six months); 7 new housing units permitted in Lyon County, KY over twelve months, Lyon, KY up 0% from 7; Lyon, KY home prices +9.9% a year (Lyon, KY) over three years.
4,847 housing units in Lyon County, KY; 611 Lyon, KY renter households; 30% of Lyon, KY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Lyon, KY) half or more.
Lyon County, KY ranks #885 nationally on the opportunity index (Lyon, KY, among all ranked counties); Lyon, KY scores 31.6/100 and Lyon, KY sits #61 inside Kentucky. Lyon, KY is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Lyon, KY's primary driver is vacancy, Lyon, KY second driver bank institutional; Lyon, KY moved down 325 places. 101 days on market observed in Lyon, KY; 30.4% vacancy over 4 Lyon, KY ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Lyon County, KY. The non-metro area reading for Lyon, KY: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Lyon, KY's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Lyon, KY, December 2025 data); Kentucky overall 1.0%.
Lyon County, KY has 2 watched banks; 2 Lyon, KY banks sit in an elevated band. Lyon, KY footprints: Fredonia Valley Bank (1 branch, stress 74) in Lyon, KY; Farmers Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 66) in Lyon, KY.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Lyon County, KY with 44 units; 44 Lyon, KY units are assisted, 1 Lyon, KY properties under project-based Section 8.
1,428 of the 4,847 housing units in Lyon, KY sit vacant. Lyon County, KY permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lyon, KY's one-to-four unit structures added 7 units in Lyon County, KY.
Top Lyon County ZIP codes by stress score
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