Knox County, TN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Knox County, TN, Tennessee: 31 ZIP codes scored, Knox County, TN averaging 25/100 (low, Knox, TN), from 15 to 30. Knox County, TN is in its neutral phase (Knox, TN confidence 22/100): Knox, TN home prices up 3.8% (Knox, TN) over twelve months. Knox County, TN lender headwind: 41/100.
Highest-scoring Knox County, TN ZIPs: 37764 (30/100), 37902 (27/100), 37909 (27/100), 37912 (27/100), 37914 (27/100), 37915 (27/100). Also scored in Knox County, TN: 37916, 37917, 37918, 37919, 37920, 37921, 37922, 37923, 37924, 37929.
Across Knox County, TN's scored ZIPs: median home value $307,260, household income $75,292, 9.3% vacancy, 15.3% poverty, 66% owner-occupied, median age 39.4.
Knox County, TN insurance distress 57/100 (#960 in the US); FEMA hazard 40/100 for Knox, TN; 6 federal disaster declarations in Knox County, TN since 2023; 6 Knox, TN NFIP flood claims, $290K paid; Knox, TN construction distress 25/100.
31 banks with 132 branches lend in Knox County, TN; Knox, TN weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 81/100 in Knox, TN.
Knox County, TN unemployment 3.2% (Knox, TN +0.1 pts, six months); 5,179 new housing units permitted in Knox County, TN over twelve months, Knox, TN up 25% from 4,138; Knox, TN home prices +14.0% a year (Knox, TN) over three years.
218,661 housing units in Knox County, TN; 69,156 Knox, TN renter households; 46% of Knox, TN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Knox, TN) half or more.
Knox County, TN ranks #2,540 nationally on the opportunity index (Knox, TN, among all ranked counties); Knox, TN scores 25.7/100 and Knox, TN sits #84 inside Tennessee. Knox, TN is in the weak opportunity phase; Knox, TN's primary driver is bank institutional, Knox, TN second driver vacancy; Knox, TN moved up 204 places. 32 short-sale listings across Knox, TN; 95 days on market observed in Knox, TN; 8.0% vacancy over 31 Knox, TN ZIPs.
0.6% of Knox County, TN mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Knox, TN's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.9% (CFPB county sample). Knox, TN's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Knox, TN peak since 2008 was 2.8% in February 2011; Tennessee overall reads 0.9%.
Knox County, TN has 17 watched banks; 17 Knox, TN banks sit in an elevated band. Knox, TN footprints: First Horizon Bank (19 branches, stress 58) in Knox, TN; Home Federal Bank Of Tn (17 branches, stress 60) in Knox, TN; Southeast Bank (5 branches, stress 81) in Knox, TN.
HUD lists 54 assisted multifamily properties in Knox County, TN with 6,362 units; 1,640 Knox, TN units are assisted, 11 Knox, TN properties under project-based Section 8.
17,515 of the 218,661 housing units in Knox, TN sit vacant. Knox County, TN permitted 2,426 multifamily units in twelve months; Knox, TN's one-to-four unit structures added 2,753 units in Knox County, TN.