ZIP 38340 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Chester County, Tennessee · Affordable market
ZIP code 38340 in Chester County, Tennessee carries a composite property-distress score of 17/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (60/100), structural risk (38/100), institutional ownership (25/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (25/100) and mortgage stress (13/100). The split runs 38/100 structural to 4/100 active on the ground.
Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.9% over the trailing year, and 28% higher over three years (phase confidence 64/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
A median home runs $160,000 here, or 2.3 times local income. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 73% owner-occupied to 27% rented. Educational attainment sits at 21% bachelor's-or-above. About 12,274 people live here, median age 34. There are about 4,709 housing units across 38340. The vacancy rate is 7.1%. 15.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. At $61,477, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.
Net-net, 38340 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 38340's 17/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 38340 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 17/100 figure for 38340 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. The point of the 38340 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 38340’s distress
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 38340 by the numbers
A live read on 38340: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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