Rhea County, TN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Rhea County, TN, Tennessee: 6 ZIP codes scored, Rhea County, TN averaging 19/100 (low, Rhea, TN), from 15 to 31. Rhea County, TN is in its peak phase (Rhea, TN confidence 27/100): Rhea, TN home prices up 2.8% (Rhea, TN) over twelve months. Rhea County, TN lender headwind: 58/100.
Highest-scoring Rhea County, TN ZIPs: 37373 (31/100), 37338 (17/100), 37321 (16/100), 37332 (16/100), 37337 (16/100), 37381 (15/100).
Across Rhea County, TN's scored ZIPs: median home value $204,717, household income $56,079, 14.4% vacancy, 17.5% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 46.4.
Rhea County, TN insurance distress 23/100 (#2,086 in the US); FEMA hazard 46/100 for Rhea, TN; 9 federal disaster declarations in Rhea County, TN since 2023; Rhea, TN construction distress 46/100.
5 banks with 8 branches lend in Rhea County, TN; Rhea, TN weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 81/100 in Rhea, TN.
Rhea County, TN unemployment 4.4% (Rhea, TN -0.2 pts, six months); 156 new housing units permitted in Rhea County, TN over twelve months, Rhea, TN up 4% from 150; Rhea, TN home prices +13.0% a year (Rhea, TN) over three years.
15,451 housing units in Rhea County, TN; 3,582 Rhea, TN renter households; 30% of Rhea, TN renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Rhea, TN) half or more.
Rhea County, TN ranks #1,670 nationally on the opportunity index (Rhea, TN, among all ranked counties); Rhea, TN scores 28.8/100 and Rhea, TN sits #49 inside Tennessee. Rhea, TN is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Rhea, TN's primary driver is vacancy, Rhea, TN second driver bank institutional; Rhea, TN moved down 100 places. 153 days on market observed in Rhea, TN; 13.9% vacancy over 6 Rhea, TN ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Rhea County, TN. The non-metro area reading for Rhea, TN: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Rhea, TN's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.3% (Rhea, TN, December 2025 data); Tennessee overall 0.9%.
Rhea County, TN has 3 watched banks; 3 Rhea, TN banks sit in an elevated band. Rhea, TN footprints: Southeast Bank (2 branches, stress 81) in Rhea, TN; First Farmers&Commercial Bk (1 branch, stress 75) in Rhea, TN; Firstbank (1 branch, stress 55) in Rhea, TN.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Rhea County, TN with 31 units; 30 Rhea, TN units are assisted.
1,976 of the 15,451 housing units in Rhea, TN sit vacant. Rhea County, TN permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Rhea, TN's one-to-four unit structures added 156 units in Rhea County, TN.