ZIP 37909 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 37909 (Knox County, Tennessee) at a low 27/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 58/100 against active distress of 5/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (58/100), institutional ownership (44/100), mortgage stress (17/100). mortgage stress (17/100) and construction/permit lag (16/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.4% over the trailing year, and 20% higher over three years, at 39/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Vacancy runs 4.0%. 48% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 8,150 housing units across 37909. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. At $61,365, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 8.6%. The typical home is worth about $312,500 (4.5× income). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. 16,848 residents call 37909 home, typically aged 36. Around 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Overall, 37909 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.