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

For Carter County, Tennessee, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Lender pressure in Carter County registers 7/100 — a low bank-stress headwind. The county spans 8 scored ZIP codes, averaging 31/100 composite distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 35/100 at the top down to 27/100.

The county market is in a neutral phase: home prices rose 4.2% over the past year, a 31/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +4.2% YoY and 31/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A low 7/100 bank headwind points the search to tax delinquency, probate and liens.

By composite, 37604 (35/100), 37601 (33/100), 37694 (31/100), 37643 (30/100), 37658 (30/100), 37682 (30/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. The breakdown continues through 37687, 37640 and more.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Carter County come in at 14.2% of units sitting vacant, an owner-occupied share of 78%, a median household income near $49,348 (below the US norm), typical home values near $184,486, a 16.9% poverty rate, a median age of 42.4. These fundamentals shape who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

At 31/100 composite over 8 ZIPs, Carter County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Carter County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

Carter County, Tennessee is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Carter County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Carter County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Carter County leads with 37604 (35/100), 37601 (33/100), 37694 (31/100), 37643 (30/100), 37658 (30/100), 37682 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 37687, 37640 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.

The Carter County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.