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

Mason County, KY, Kentucky: 5 ZIP codes scored, Mason County, KY averaging 20/100 (low, Mason, KY), from 19 to 26. Mason County, KY is in its expansion phase (Mason, KY confidence 33/100): Mason, KY home prices up 5.3% (Mason, KY) over twelve months. Mason County, KY lender headwind: 6/100.

Highest-scoring Mason County, KY ZIPs: 41039 (26/100), 41034 (19/100), 41044 (19/100), 41055 (19/100), 41056 (19/100).

Across Mason County, KY's scored ZIPs: median home value $142,060, household income $52,660, 14.4% vacancy, 16.3% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 39.9.

Mason County, KY insurance distress 32/100 (#1,530 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Mason, KY; 8 federal disaster declarations in Mason County, KY since 2023; Mason, KY construction distress 64/100.

6 banks with 11 branches lend in Mason County, KY; Mason, KY weighted bank stress 49/100, highest 77/100 in Mason, KY.

Mason County, KY unemployment 5.2% (Mason, KY -1.0 pts, six months); 25 new housing units permitted in Mason County, KY over twelve months, Mason, KY down 14% from 29; Mason, KY home prices +9.0% a year (Mason, KY) over three years.

8,190 housing units in Mason County, KY; 2,176 Mason, KY renter households; 36% of Mason, KY renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Mason, KY) half or more.

Mason County, KY ranks #1,402 nationally on the opportunity index (Mason, KY, among all ranked counties); Mason, KY scores 29.8/100 and Mason, KY sits #86 inside Kentucky. Mason, KY is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Mason, KY's primary driver is vacancy, Mason, KY second driver construction; Mason, KY moved up 45 places. 2 short-sale listings across Mason, KY; 89 days on market observed in Mason, KY; 15.3% vacancy over 5 Mason, KY ZIPs.

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

Mason County, KY has 3 watched banks; 3 Mason, KY banks sit in an elevated band. Mason, KY footprints: Bank Of Maysville (3 branches, stress 35) in Mason, KY; Security Bank&Trust Co (3 branches, stress 30) in Mason, KY; Peoples Bank Of Kentucky Inc (2 branches, stress 77) in Mason, KY.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Mason County, KY with 63 units; 62 Mason, KY units are assisted, 2 Mason, KY properties under project-based Section 8.

1,059 of the 8,190 housing units in Mason, KY sit vacant. Mason County, KY permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Mason, KY's one-to-four unit structures added 25 units in Mason County, KY.