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

Knox County, ME, Maine: 19 ZIP codes scored, Knox County, ME averaging 19/100 (low, Knox, ME). Knox County, ME is in its peak phase (Knox, ME confidence 40/100): Knox, ME home prices up 2.0% (Knox, ME) over twelve months. Knox County, ME lender headwind: 84/100.

Highest-scoring Knox County, ME ZIPs: 04547 (19/100), 04563 (19/100), 04574 (19/100), 04645 (19/100), 04841 (19/100), 04843 (19/100). Also scored in Knox County, ME: 04847, 04851, 04853, 04854, 04855, 04856, 04858, 04859, 04860, 04861.

Across Knox County, ME's scored ZIPs: median home value $357,889, household income $73,980, 33.1% vacancy, 7.2% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 53.8.

Knox County, ME insurance distress 61/100 (#874 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Knox, ME; 2 federal disaster declarations in Knox County, ME since 2023; 27 Knox, ME NFIP flood claims, $1.3M paid; Knox, ME construction distress 31/100.

8 banks with 19 branches lend in Knox County, ME; Knox, ME weighted bank stress 72/100, highest 94/100 in Knox, ME.

Knox County, ME unemployment 3.0% (Knox, ME -1.3 pts, six months); 197 new housing units permitted in Knox County, ME over twelve months, Knox, ME up 19% from 166; Knox, ME home prices +15.7% a year (Knox, ME) over three years.

24,564 housing units in Knox County, ME; 3,859 Knox, ME renter households; 46% of Knox, ME renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Knox, ME) half or more.

Knox County, ME ranks #1,225 nationally on the opportunity index (Knox, ME, among all ranked counties); Knox, ME scores 30.4/100 and Knox, ME sits #10 inside Maine. Knox, ME is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Knox, ME's primary driver is vacancy, Knox, ME second driver bank institutional; Knox, ME moved down 611 places. 6 short-sale listings across Knox, ME; 47 days on market observed in Knox, ME; 23.2% vacancy over 19 Knox, ME ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Knox County, ME. The non-metro area reading for Knox, ME: 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Knox, ME's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Knox, ME, December 2025 data); Maine overall 0.9%.

Knox County, ME has 6 watched banks; 6 Knox, ME banks sit in an elevated band. Knox, ME footprints: Camden National Bank (6 branches, stress 61) in Knox, ME; Bangor Savings Bank (4 branches, stress 94) in Knox, ME; First National Bank (4 branches, stress 72) in Knox, ME.

HUD lists 4 assisted multifamily properties in Knox County, ME with 111 units; 110 Knox, ME units are assisted, 2 Knox, ME properties under project-based Section 8.

6,080 of the 24,564 housing units in Knox, ME sit vacant. Knox County, ME permitted 72 multifamily units in twelve months; Knox, ME's one-to-four unit structures added 125 units in Knox County, ME.