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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Lewis County, Tennessee using verifiable public-record signals alone. Individual Lewis County ZIPs score between 11 and 26 on the 0–100 composite. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 37/100 (moderate). 7 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 18/100 distress.

In its peak phase, Lewis County home prices rose 2.8% across the last year, a 27/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, distress turns selective so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Lewis County flat at +2.8% YoY (27/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 37/100 implies both signal sets in play here.

The sharpest Lewis County readings come from 38474 (26/100), 38464 (21/100), 38461 (19/100), 38483 (19/100), 37096 (16/100), 38462 (13/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Further scored ZIPs: 38485.

Profile-wise, the Lewis County ZIPs on file come in at a 15.5% poverty rate, 78% of homes owner-occupied, vacancy near 15.7%, residents with a median age around 42.8, home values averaging roughly $212,800, below the US, incomes around $53,352. These fundamentals frame the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 18/100 reading over 7 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lewis County parcel: owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Because Lewis County, Tennessee is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Lewis County against neighboring markets or the rest of Tennessee on equal footing.

Treat Lewis County, Tennessee as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. Provenance for Lewis County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lewis County are 38474 (26/100), 38464 (21/100), 38461 (19/100), 38483 (19/100), 37096 (16/100), 38462 (13/100). DLRadar also scores 38485 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Lewis 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.