ZIP 38548 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 38548 (Putnam County, Tennessee) at a low 21/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (58/100), structural risk (47/100), institutional ownership (35/100). institutional ownership (35/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 47 and live distress 0 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

1,217 residents call 38548 home, typically aged 50. The typical home is worth about $268,600 (3.7× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 18.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. The poverty rate is 11.8%. At $56,979, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 93% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 588 housing units across 38548. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Around 7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 38548 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.