Blount County, TN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Blount County, TN, Tennessee: 13 ZIP codes scored, Blount County, TN averaging 20/100 (low, Blount, TN), from 19 to 27. Blount County, TN is in its neutral phase (Blount, TN confidence 22/100): Blount, TN home prices up 3.8% (Blount, TN) over twelve months. Blount County, TN lender headwind: 48/100.
Highest-scoring Blount County, TN ZIPs: 37865 (27/100), 37920 (27/100), 37742 (22/100), 37701 (19/100), 37737 (19/100), 37777 (19/100). Also scored in Blount County, TN: 37801, 37803, 37804, 37853, 37878, 37882, 37886.
Across Blount County, TN's scored ZIPs: median home value $298,123, household income $73,776, 16.3% vacancy, 10.5% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 43.9.
Blount County, TN insurance distress 21/100 (#2,254 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Blount, TN; 6 federal disaster declarations in Blount County, TN since 2023; Blount, TN construction distress 32/100.
15 banks with 28 branches lend in Blount County, TN; Blount, TN weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 81/100 in Blount, TN.
Blount County, TN unemployment 3.1% (Blount, TN -0.2 pts, six months); 1,066 new housing units permitted in Blount County, TN over twelve months, Blount, TN up 20% from 886; Blount, TN home prices +15.0% a year (Blount, TN) over three years.
61,850 housing units in Blount County, TN; 12,549 Blount, TN renter households; 37% of Blount, TN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Blount, TN) half or more.
Blount County, TN ranks #2,305 nationally on the opportunity index (Blount, TN, among all ranked counties); Blount, TN scores 26.7/100 and Blount, TN sits #71 inside Tennessee. Blount, TN is in the weak opportunity phase; Blount, TN's primary driver is bank institutional, Blount, TN second driver vacancy; Blount, TN moved up 272 places. 12 short-sale listings across Blount, TN; 80 days on market observed in Blount, TN; 9.7% vacancy over 13 Blount, TN ZIPs.
0.7% of Blount County, TN mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Blount, TN's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.9% (CFPB county sample). Blount, TN's ninety-day rate is up 0.3 points on twelve months earlier; the Blount, TN peak since 2008 was 3.7% in May 2010; Tennessee overall reads 0.9%.
Blount County, TN has 8 watched banks; 8 Blount, TN banks sit in an elevated band. Blount, TN footprints: Cbbc Bank (7 branches, stress 62) in Blount, TN; First Horizon Bank (4 branches, stress 58) in Blount, TN; Smartbank (2 branches, stress 65) in Blount, TN.
HUD lists 6 assisted multifamily properties in Blount County, TN with 660 units; 247 Blount, TN units are assisted, 2 Blount, TN properties under project-based Section 8.
6,328 of the 61,850 housing units in Blount, TN sit vacant. Blount County, TN permitted 273 multifamily units in twelve months; Blount, TN's one-to-four unit structures added 793 units in Blount County, TN.