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

Lewis County, TN, Tennessee: 7 ZIP codes scored, Lewis County, TN averaging 17/100 (low, Lewis, TN), from 10 to 26. Lewis County, TN is in its peak phase (Lewis, TN confidence 27/100): Lewis, TN home prices up 2.8% (Lewis, TN) over twelve months. Lewis County, TN lender headwind: 37/100.

Highest-scoring Lewis County, TN ZIPs: 38474 (26/100), 38464 (21/100), 38461 (19/100), 38483 (18/100), 37096 (15/100), 38485 (11/100). Also scored in Lewis County, TN: 38462.

Across Lewis County, TN's scored ZIPs: median home value $212,800, household income $53,352, 15.7% vacancy, 15.5% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 42.8.

Lewis County, TN insurance distress 27/100 (#1,801 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Lewis, TN; 8 federal disaster declarations in Lewis County, TN since 2023; Lewis, TN construction distress 37/100.

5 banks with 5 branches lend in Lewis County, TN; Lewis, TN weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 87/100 in Lewis, TN.

Lewis County, TN unemployment 4.5% (Lewis, TN -0.8 pts, six months); 32 new housing units permitted in Lewis County, TN over twelve months, Lewis, TN up 33% from 24; Lewis, TN home prices +15.4% a year (Lewis, TN) over three years.

5,804 housing units in Lewis County, TN; 1,006 Lewis, TN renter households; 32% of Lewis, TN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Lewis, TN) half or more.

Lewis County, TN ranks #2,644 nationally on the opportunity index (Lewis, TN, among all ranked counties); Lewis, TN scores 25.2/100 and Lewis, TN sits #87 inside Tennessee. Lewis, TN is in the weak opportunity phase; Lewis, TN's primary driver is bank institutional, Lewis, TN second driver vacancy; Lewis, TN moved down 143 places. 8 short-sale listings across Lewis, TN; 107 days on market observed in Lewis, TN; 11.1% vacancy over 7 Lewis, TN ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Lewis County, TN. The non-metro area reading for Lewis, TN: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Lewis, TN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.3% (Lewis, TN, December 2025 data); Tennessee overall 0.9%.

Lewis County, TN has 3 watched banks; 3 Lewis, TN banks sit in an elevated band. Lewis, TN footprints: Bank Of Perry County (1 branch, stress 60) in Lewis, TN; Peoples Bank (1 branch, stress 54) in Lewis, TN; Wayne County Bank (1 branch, stress 43) in Lewis, TN.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Lewis County, TN with 20 units; 19 Lewis, TN units are assisted.

417 of the 5,804 housing units in Lewis, TN sit vacant. Lewis County, TN permitted 7 multifamily units in twelve months; Lewis, TN's one-to-four unit structures added 25 units in Lewis County, TN.