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

Lake County, Tennessee is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 16 to 23 out of 100. 3 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 18/100 distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 38 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

Currently peak, Lake County saw prices rise 2.8% year over year (phase confidence 27/100). This late in the run, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

At +2.8% YoY and 27/100 confidence, selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Mid-range bank stress at 38/100 points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 38080 (23/100), ZIP 38077 (16/100), ZIP 38079 (16/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read.

Demographically, Lake County's tracked footprint report household income averaging about $30,545, below the national median, 18.9% of units sitting vacant, poverty running near 31.2%, 45% of homes owner-occupied, typical home values near $101,400, a median age of 38.4. Income, equity and tenure like these set up the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

Net of it all, 18/100 over 3 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lake County parcel: owner, APN and address, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

Lake County, Tennessee is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Lake County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Provenance for Lake County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Lake County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 38080 (23/100), 38077 (16/100), 38079 (16/100). 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.

Under Lake County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.