ZIP 38253 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Obion County, Tennessee · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 38253 in Obion County, Tennessee carries a composite property-distress score of 30/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100). On the structural side it scores 67/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (67/100), construction/permit lag (63/100), institutional ownership (48/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, at 19/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Households earn a median $66,767 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 9.0% live below the poverty line. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100. There are about 417 housing units across 38253. Owners hold 75% of homes, renters 25%. About 32% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $250,000 here, or 2.9 times local income. 956 residents call 38253 home, typically aged 43. Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 14.7% — elevated.
Taken together, 38253 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 38253's 30/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Obion County, Tennessee or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 38253 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
38253's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 38253 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.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 38253
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 38253 by the numbers
The live 38253 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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