ZIP 40953 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Knox County, Kentucky · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 40953 in Knox County, Kentucky carries a composite property-distress score of 23/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (67/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100). Structural risk reads 50/100 against active distress of 0/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (60/100), structural risk (50/100).
The peak-phase market in 40953 posted values that rose 4.4% over the year (phase confidence 22/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 642 people live here, median age 47. Around 100% of renters are cost-burdened. 78% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Roughly 10.0% live below the poverty line. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100. The ZIP holds roughly 219 housing units. Vacancy runs 14.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Median household income is $59,861, below the U.S. median near $78,000.
On the whole, 40953 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 40953 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
No ZIP is too small to score: 40953 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 23/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 40953 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Behind 40953's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 40953 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 40953
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
Snapshot: 40953 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 40953, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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