ZIP 42629 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 42629 in Russell County, Kentucky comes in at 12, a minimal composite-distress reading. The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (43/100), structural risk (25/100), mortgage stress (21/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (25/100) and mortgage stress (21/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (78/100)). Latent structural risk is 25/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.3% over the trailing year, and 31% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

A median home runs $168,100 here, or 4.0 times local income. The poverty rate is 30.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The vacancy rate is 32.4% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 52% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 3,076 housing units. About 13% have a four-year degree. At $39,313, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 41/100. About 5,453 people live here, median age 48.

On the whole, 42629 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 42629 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 42629's 12/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Russell County, Kentucky or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 42629, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 12/100 figure for 42629 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. For an operator, 42629 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.