Smyth County, VA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Smyth County, Virginia carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Individual Smyth County ZIPs score between 22 and 29 on the 0–100 composite. Lender pressure in Smyth County registers 54/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. DLRadar scores 10 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100.

Currently expansion, Smyth County saw prices rise 5.5% year over year, at 30/100 phase confidence. Despite the upswing, pockets of distress persist and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

Even appreciating at +5.5% YoY (30/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain so buy those and momentum helps on exit. A mid-cycle 54/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

By composite, 24311 (29/100), 24354 (29/100), 24375 (29/100), 24316 (28/100), 24319 (26/100), 24370 (26/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 24236, 24368, 24378, 24318.

Demographically, the Smyth County ZIPs on file show typical home values near $118,256, residents with a median age around 49.3, 24.4% of units sitting vacant, household income averaging about $48,060, below the national median, 82% owner-occupancy, a 15.5% poverty rate. Read together, they shape where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

Smyth County, Virginia's 26/100 average over 10 ZIPs says Smyth County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Smyth County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

The way to work Smyth County, Virginia is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 29/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Smyth County with undifferentiated outreach. Provenance for Smyth County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Smyth County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 24311 (29/100), 24354 (29/100), 24375 (29/100), 24316 (28/100), 24319 (26/100), 24370 (26/100). DLRadar also scores 24236, 24368, 24378, 24318 across the county. 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.

The Smyth County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.