ZIP 38559 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Van Buren County, Tennessee · High Vacancy market
In Van Buren County, Tennessee, ZIP 38559 scores 11 of 100 for composite distress, a minimal level on DLRadar's public-record index. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (46/100), structural risk (24/100), institutional ownership (23/100). institutional ownership (23/100) and mortgage stress (11/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 24/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100.
The peak-phase market in 38559 posted values that rose 2.6% over the year, at 24/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
1,227 residents call 38559 home, typically aged 32. 77% of housing is owner-occupied. Roughly 19.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The ZIP holds roughly 572 housing units. The typical home is worth about $158,200 (3.5× income, relatively affordable). 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. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 59% of renters are cost-burdened.
Taken together, 38559 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 38559 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 38559 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 11/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 38559 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
38559'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. Treat 38559 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 38559’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.
The 38559 distress snapshot
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