Benton County, TN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Benton County, Tennessee, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 17 up to 22/100. There are 7 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 20/100). The county's lending-headwind score sits at 0/100 (low).

Currently peak, Benton County saw prices rise 2.8% year over year, at 27/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Benton County's topped-out +2.8% YoY (27/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. A steady 0/100 bank reading puts the live signals on tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Leading Benton County on distress: 38221 (22/100), 38320 (22/100), 38333 (22/100), 38341 (22/100), 38380 (19/100), 38317 (17/100). Coverage extends to 38387 among others.

Demographically, the Benton County ZIPs on file run a 20.2% poverty rate, a median age of 53.8, incomes around $52,521, vacancy near 31.1%, 81% of homes owner-occupied, typical home values near $149,986. Read together, they drive where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

With a low 20/100 reading over 7 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Benton County parcel's owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Benton County, Tennessee's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. Provenance for Benton County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Benton County leads with 38221 (22/100), 38320 (22/100), 38333 (22/100), 38341 (22/100), 38380 (19/100), 38317 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 38387 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.

Under Benton 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.