ZIP 40734 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 40734 (Knox County, Kentucky) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100), climate & FEMA risk (67/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (62/100), structural risk (56/100), mortgage stress (25/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100) and construction/permit lag (19/100). Structural exposure scores 56 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale.

The peak-phase market in 40734 posted values that rose 4.5% over the year, at 33/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

There are about 1,521 housing units across 40734. Around 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $131,700 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). 78% of housing is owner-occupied. At $40,270, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Population is roughly 3,633 with a median age of 42. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 18.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 30.7% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.

On the whole, 40734 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.