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

For Athens County, Ohio, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Individual Athens County ZIPs score between 13 and 22 on the 0–100 composite. On bank and credit headwind, Athens County scores 57/100. Coverage runs to 19 ZIPs across Athens County, a low 20/100 average.

Currently peak, Athens County saw prices rise 3.9% year over year (phase confidence 28/100). This late in the run, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +3.9% YoY (28/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 57/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Athens County are 45701 (22/100), 45716 (22/100), 45719 (22/100), 45735 (22/100), 45739 (22/100), 45740 (22/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. The breakdown continues through 45761, 45778, 45780, 45782, 45711, 45723, 45776, 45766, 45732, 45742 and more.

Profile-wise, the Athens County ZIPs on file show home values averaging roughly $144,828, below the US, an owner-occupied share of 80%, a median household income near $55,501 (below the US norm), a median age of 44.6, vacancy near 14.3%, poverty running near 13.9%. Taken together, they drive who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Net of it all, 20/100 over 19 ZIPs means Athens County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Athens County property carries owner, APN and address, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

Whether Athens County, Ohio carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Athens County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Athens County, Ohio is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Athens County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Athens County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Athens County leads with 45701 (22/100), 45716 (22/100), 45719 (22/100), 45735 (22/100), 45739 (22/100), 45740 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 45761, 45778, 45780, 45782, 45711, 45723, 45776, 45766 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Athens County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.