ZIP 38559 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Van Buren County, Tennessee's ZIP 38559 registers 14/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (33/100), institutional ownership (26/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (26/100) and mortgage stress (11/100). Structural exposure scores 33 and live distress 3 on the 0–100 scale.

The peak-phase market in 38559 posted values that rose 4.5% over the year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 1,227 with a median age of 32. The tenure split is 77% owner-occupied to 23% rented. Roughly 19.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. There are about 572 housing units across 38559. A median home runs $158,200 here, or 3.5 times local income. Households earn a median $42,955 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 13.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 38559 scores 36/100. About 14% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 59% of tenant households.

On the whole, 38559 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.