Benton County, TN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Benton County, TN, Tennessee: 7 ZIP codes scored, Benton County, TN averaging 19/100 (low, Benton, TN), from 17 to 21. Benton County, TN is in its peak phase (Benton, TN confidence 27/100): Benton, TN home prices up 2.8% (Benton, TN) over twelve months. Benton County, TN lender headwind: 0/100.
Highest-scoring Benton County, TN ZIPs: 38221 (21/100), 38320 (21/100), 38333 (21/100), 38341 (19/100), 38380 (19/100), 38317 (17/100). Also scored in Benton County, TN: 38387.
Across Benton County, TN's scored ZIPs: median home value $149,986, household income $52,521, 31.1% vacancy, 20.2% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 53.8.
Benton County, TN insurance distress 21/100 (#2,252 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Benton, TN; 6 federal disaster declarations in Benton County, TN since 2023; Benton, TN construction distress 76/100.
3 banks with 6 branches lend in Benton County, TN; Benton, TN weighted bank stress 42/100, highest 81/100 in Benton, TN.
Benton County, TN unemployment 4.7% (Benton, TN -0.6 pts, six months); 2 new housing units permitted in Benton County, TN over twelve months, Benton, TN down 33% from 3; Benton, TN home prices +11.4% a year (Benton, TN) over three years.
8,569 housing units in Benton County, TN; 1,756 Benton, TN renter households; 29% of Benton, TN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 13% (Benton, TN) half or more.
Benton County, TN ranks #44 nationally on the opportunity index (Benton, TN, among all ranked counties); Benton, TN scores 38.8/100 and Benton, TN sits #1 inside Tennessee. Benton, TN is in the overheated opportunity phase; Benton, TN's primary driver is vacancy, Benton, TN second driver construction; Benton, TN moved down 28 places. 65 days on market observed in Benton, TN; 17.3% vacancy over 7 Benton, TN ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Benton County, TN. The non-metro area reading for Benton, TN: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Benton, TN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.3% (Benton, TN, December 2025 data); Tennessee overall 0.9%.
Benton County, TN has 3 watched banks; 3 Benton, TN banks sit in an elevated band. Benton, TN footprints: Apex Bank (4 branches, stress 29) in Benton, TN; Carroll Bank&Trust (1 branch, stress 81) in Benton, TN; Firstbank (1 branch, stress 55) in Benton, TN.
HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Benton County, TN with 84 units; 83 Benton, TN units are assisted, 1 Benton, TN properties under project-based Section 8.
1,448 of the 8,569 housing units in Benton, TN sit vacant. Benton County, TN permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Benton, TN's one-to-four unit structures added 2 units in Benton County, TN.