ZIP 37916 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Knox County, Tennessee, ZIP 37916 scores 28 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 62/100 structural and 5/100 already moving. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (40/100), construction/permit lag (38/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (38/100) and mortgage stress (17/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100)).

The market reads neutral — home values rose 3.8% year on year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

14,771 residents call 37916 home, typically aged 21. The vacancy rate is 16.4% — elevated. Home values center near $269,800, an affordability ratio of 15.0× — stretched. Around 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Owners hold 3% of homes, renters 97%. The ZIP holds roughly 3,687 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 75/100. The poverty rate is 74.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 82% of tenant households. At $17,982, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

On the whole, 37916 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 37916 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 37916 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 28/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Knox County, Tennessee and the nation. Where the public record is thin for 37916, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 28/100 figure for 37916 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 37916 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.