Kentucky Properties With Back Taxes: Tax Delinquent Properties for Sale List 2026

A property has back taxes when its owner has not paid the property tax bill. In Kentucky the county can then sell it at a tax sale.

92,703 tax delinquent properties are on Kentucky county lists right now, with another 14,071 from sales that have already been held (see the past sales view), across 118 counties. In Kentucky the county calls this the delinquent tax bills (you will also see certificate of delinquency, county clerk sale). Every row below comes from the county's own published list; the parcel numbers, addresses and opening bids are the county's figures, last retrieved 2026-07-31.

Watch: researching a tax lien before you buy

A narrated walkthrough: find tax liens by county, read the Research Score, risk flags and sources, set your maximum bid and save a Deal Radar.

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If you came here for tax liens, start in Property Research and choose Tax Lien.

Liens without a set sale date sit under Timing not assigned yet. That includes over the counter liens you can buy now, with no auction.

Pick a state and a county. I'll use Maricopa County, Arizona.

Tick Mapped only to see each lien on the map, and switch to aerial imagery to look at the property from above.

Open a lien to see the full research.

The Research Score grades it from A to D, out of one hundred, and shows where the points come from.

Estimated value and confidence gives you a value range, and tells you how far to trust it. It's a starting point, not an appraisal.

Risk flags come up before you buy: whether it's still available, liens that may survive, and a source that may be out of date. Open one to see what to check.

The due diligence checklist shows the lien to value ratio and the back taxes, and what you still need to verify yourself.

Sources and freshness links every fact back to the county's own record.

Then calculate your maximum bid. You get a comfortable range, a caution range, and the price where you should stop.

Back in Research, mark it as a bid candidate, and add private notes that only you can see.

Save your search as a Deal Radar, and new matches come to you by email.

That's tax liens: from a county to a lien worth buying, with every fact sourced to the county.

Counties with a published list

CountyParcelsPast salesNext saleLowest opening bid
Jefferson4,3323,566not yet posted
Pike5,263not yet posted
Boyd1,9461,355not yet posted$7
Floyd3,015not yet posted
Knox2,887not yet posted
Perry2,812not yet posted
Whitley2,637not yet posted
Harlan2,549not yet posted
Bell1,4031,116not yet posted$30
Pulaski2,515not yet posted
Greenup1,4071,029not yet posted$31
Bullitt9141,412not yet posted$36
Laurel2,047not yet posted
Warren1,270687not yet posted$41
Calloway1,881not yet posted
McCracken1,843not yet posted
Hopkins1,697not yet posted
Letcher1,692not yet posted
Kenton1,434not yet posted
Johnson1,384not yet posted
Fayette1,269not yet posted
Knott1,246not yet posted
Campbell764466not yet posted$27
Hardin1,209not yet posted
Breathitt1,208not yet posted
Boone746449not yet posted$26
Madison1,166not yet posted
Christian1,100not yet posted
Martin1,071not yet posted
Leslie1,063not yet posted
Carter1,029not yet posted
Clay1,007not yet posted
Muhlenberg1,000not yet posted
Lawrence929not yet posted
Morgan550370not yet posted
Henderson871not yet posted
Rowan548321not yet posted$24
Owen841not yet posted
Powell830not yet posted
Allen558261not yet posted$36
Montgomery501311not yet posted$31
Scott463312not yet posted$66
Grayson755not yet posted
Graves749not yet posted
Daviess718not yet posted
Ohio705not yet posted
Bourbon699not yet posted$73
Hart430262not yet posted$40
Barren667not yet posted
Lee659not yet posted
Jackson623not yet posted
McCreary614not yet posted
Clinton416196not yet posted
Grant611not yet posted
Jessamine343242not yet posted$38
Franklin582not yet posted
Meade581not yet posted
Edmonson577not yet posted
Logan574not yet posted
Trigg572not yet posted

58 more counties in the member research view.

The first 5 from the Kentucky list

The first 5 current parcels as published by the counties, no account needed. Owner of record, research scores, maps, filters, reports and CSV export are in the member research view.

AddressCountyOpening bidSale date
1747 BETHLEHEM RDBourbon$29,375
.20 AC- 1914 N MIDDLETOWN RBourbon$7,530
656 JACKSTOWN RDBourbon$6,974
AC- 440 BUNKER HILL RD 069Bourbon$6,107
1683 CYNTHIANA RDBourbon$6,013

92,698 more Kentucky properties are on this list. Create a free account to open them in the research view.

How Kentucky sells tax delinquent property

Sale type
certificate of delinquency/tax lien assignment
Investor return
12%/yr
Redemption period
1 year
Bidding method
n/a
Typical sale season
mid-July through late August; some counties into October

Certificates of delinquency are bought at face (priority/registration-based clerk sale, not competitive bid-down); a notice to the taxpayer is required within 50 days.

Statutory terms last verified 2026-07-29; see the Kentucky investing profile for the sources and the TaxLienSimple Index score.

Where Kentucky counties publish the list

The office that publishes this notice is not the same in every state: it can be the treasurer, the tax collector, the clerk, the sheriff, the court, or the auction platform named on the county page. Before you rely on a row, check four things on the county's own page — the posted date, the sale date, whether the record is current or historical, and the official link you took it from. Our guide to finding and verifying a list walks through that check and how to keep the result as a watchlist: how to find and verify a tax sale list.

What this page does not show

Everything above is the sale itself: the date, the platform, the statutory terms and the county's own sources, free and without an account. What it does not show is the property-level detail, or the 409 other county and city sales tracked alongside this one.

  • The 106,774 parcels published for Kentucky. Opening bids, addresses and assessed values, with the official source on each row. This page shows a sample.
  • The full sale calendar. 410 tracked county and city sales, filterable by date, state and sale type, instead of one page at a time.
  • 330,391 parcels across 939 counties. Searchable nationwide, with a research score and the pre-bid warnings behind it.

A free account previews two counties and needs no card. Paid plans start with a 7-day trial for $1.99 and carry a 7-day money-back guarantee. TaxLienSimple is a research platform: we publish the records and the sources, we do not sell properties and we make no claim about what any certificate or parcel is worth.

Kentucky tax delinquent property questions

Where can I find a list of tax delinquent properties for sale in Kentucky?

Each Kentucky county publishes its own list before the sale, usually on the treasurer, tax collector or revenue commissioner site or through its auction platform. TaxLienSimple collects those county lists into one place: 106,774 parcels across 118 counties right now, each linked to the county's official listing.

Can I buy a property with delinquent taxes in Kentucky?

Kentucky runs certificate of delinquency/tax lien assignment sales. Certificates of delinquency are bought at face (priority/registration-based clerk sale, not competitive bid-down); a notice to the taxpayer is required within 50 days. Redemption: 1 year. Investor return: 12%/yr.

What is the lowest opening bid on the Kentucky list?

The lowest opening bid on the current Kentucky list is $7. Opening bids are the county's figure (taxes, interest and costs owed), not the property's value.

When is the next tax sale in Kentucky?

No Kentucky county has a confirmed upcoming date in our data at the moment; the county pages update when a date is posted.