Adams County, OH: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Adams County, Ohio is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Lender pressure in Adams County registers 59/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. DLRadar scores 13 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 16/100. ZIP-level distress ranges from 17/100 at the top down to 15/100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 6.0% over the past year, at 34/100 phase confidence. Through the growth, pockets of distress persist and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

At +6.0% YoY (34/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster which speeds resale of distressed buys. A mid-cycle 59/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading Adams County on distress: 45101 (17/100), 45616 (17/100), 45657 (17/100), 45671 (17/100), 45684 (17/100), 45105 (16/100). Other tracked Adams County ZIPs include 45144, 45618, 45650, 45660, 45679, 45693, 45697.

On the housing-and-income side, the Adams County ZIPs on file show a median household income near $53,323 (below the US norm), 20.7% of households below the poverty line, 22.9% of units sitting vacant, home values averaging roughly $152,790, below the US, a median age of 43.6, an owner-occupied share of 71%. Numbers like these signal the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

At 16/100 composite over 13 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Adams County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Because Adams County, Ohio is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Adams County against neighboring markets or the rest of Ohio on equal footing.

The point of scoring Adams County, Ohio is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Adams County data is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Adams County are 45101 (17/100), 45616 (17/100), 45657 (17/100), 45671 (17/100), 45684 (17/100), 45105 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 45144, 45618, 45650, 45660, 45679, 45693, 45697 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

The Adams County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.