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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Knox County, Tennessee using verifiable public-record signals alone. ZIP-level distress ranges from 30/100 at the top down to 14/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 41/100. The county spans 31 scored ZIP codes, averaging 26/100 composite distress.

Currently neutral, Knox County saw prices rise 3.8% year over year, at 22/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +3.8% YoY (22/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 41/100 lender headwind implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The sharpest Knox County readings come from 37764 (30/100), 37902 (28/100), 37909 (28/100), 37912 (28/100), 37914 (28/100), 37915 (28/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Other tracked Knox County ZIPs include 37916, 37917, 37918, 37919, 37920, 37921, 37922, 37923, 37924, 37929.

Underneath the scores, Knox County's scored ZIPs come in at home values averaging roughly $307,260, in line with the US, residents with a median age around 39.4, vacancy near 9.3%, a median household income near $75,292 (near the US norm), an owner-occupied share of 66%, poverty running near 15.3%. Numbers like these set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 26/100 reading over 31 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Knox County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

Scores in Knox County, Tennessee exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Knox County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Knox County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 37764 (30/100), 37902 (28/100), 37909 (28/100), 37912 (28/100), 37914 (28/100), 37915 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 37916, 37917, 37918, 37919, 37920, 37921, 37922, 37923 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

The Knox 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.