ZIP 40142 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 40142 in Meade County, Kentucky comes in at 24, a low composite-distress reading. Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (57/100), structural risk (55/100), construction/permit lag (45/100). mortgage stress (24/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 55/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.9% year on year (phase confidence 27/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The ZIP holds roughly 896 housing units. A median home runs $166,100 here, or 1.8 times local income. The poverty rate is 6.0% — low. About 8% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 6.6%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. Households earn a median $78,714 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. 2,213 residents call 40142 home, typically aged 38. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented.

Broadly, 40142 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. Parcel-level detail for 40142 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 40142's 24/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Meade County, Kentucky or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 40142, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 24/100 figure for 40142 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 40142 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.