Knox County, ME: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Knox County, Maine carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 84/100 (elevated). Coverage runs to 19 ZIPs across Knox County, a low 19/100 average.

In its peak phase, Knox County home prices rose 2.0% across the last year, a 40/100-confidence read. This late in the run, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +2.0% YoY and 40/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Bank stress at 84/100 favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 04547 (19/100), ZIP 04563 (19/100), ZIP 04574 (19/100), ZIP 04645 (19/100), ZIP 04841 (19/100), ZIP 04843 (19/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 04847, 04851, 04853, 04854, 04855, 04856, 04858, 04859, 04860, 04861 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, Knox County's tracked footprint come in at 84% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $73,980 (near the US norm), a median age of 53.8, poverty running near 7.2%, median home values around $357,889 (near the national figure), 33.1% of units sitting vacant. Numbers like these shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

At 19/100 composite over 19 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Knox County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

No county is too small to score: Knox County, Maine runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Knox County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Maine.

The point of scoring Knox County, Maine is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. The Knox 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 Knox County leads with 04547 (19/100), 04563 (19/100), 04574 (19/100), 04645 (19/100), 04841 (19/100), 04843 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 04847, 04851, 04853, 04854, 04855, 04856, 04858, 04859 and more across the county. 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.

DLRadar's composite for Knox County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.