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

Brown County, OH, Ohio: 20 ZIP codes scored, Brown County, OH averaging 16/100 (low, Brown, OH), from 12 to 22. Brown County, OH is in its peak phase (Brown, OH confidence 24/100): Brown, OH home prices up 3.5% (Brown, OH) over twelve months. Brown County, OH lender headwind: 57/100.

Highest-scoring Brown County, OH ZIPs: 45106 (22/100), 45120 (22/100), 45176 (21/100), 45130 (17/100), 45101 (16/100), 45107 (16/100). Also scored in Brown County, OH: 45115, 45118, 45119, 45121, 45131, 45154, 45167, 45168, 45133, 45144.

Across Brown County, OH's scored ZIPs: median home value $187,211, household income $65,730, 11.4% vacancy, 16.4% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 42.2.

Brown County, OH insurance distress 25/100 (#1,937 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Brown, OH; 2 Brown, OH NFIP flood claims, $101K paid; Brown, OH construction distress 18/100.

6 banks with 14 branches lend in Brown County, OH; Brown, OH weighted bank stress 65/100, highest 73/100 in Brown, OH.

Brown County, OH unemployment 3.8% (Brown, OH -1.8 pts, six months); 164 new housing units permitted in Brown County, OH over twelve months, Brown, OH up 31% from 125; Brown, OH home prices +10.8% a year (Brown, OH) over three years.

19,565 housing units in Brown County, OH; 4,090 Brown, OH renter households; 38% of Brown, OH renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Brown, OH) half or more.

Brown County, OH ranks #2,920 nationally on the opportunity index (Brown, OH, among all ranked counties); Brown, OH scores 23.7/100 and Brown, OH sits #70 inside Ohio. Brown, OH is in the weak opportunity phase; Brown, OH's primary driver is bank institutional, Brown, OH second driver vacancy; Brown, OH moved down 128 places. 6 short-sale listings across Brown, OH; 81 days on market observed in Brown, OH; 11.0% vacancy over 20 Brown, OH ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Brown County, OH. The metro area reading for Brown, OH (Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN): 0.8% ninety-plus days late; Brown, OH's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.0% (Brown, OH, December 2025 data); Ohio overall 1.0%.

Brown County, OH has 6 watched banks; 6 Brown, OH banks sit in an elevated band. Brown, OH footprints: First State Bank (4 branches, stress 73) in Brown, OH; Peoples Bank (4 branches, stress 55) in Brown, OH; Merchants National Bank (2 branches, stress 69) in Brown, OH.

HUD lists 6 assisted multifamily properties in Brown County, OH with 242 units; 241 Brown, OH units are assisted, 5 Brown, OH properties under project-based Section 8.

2,427 of the 19,565 housing units in Brown, OH sit vacant. Brown County, OH permitted 15 multifamily units in twelve months; Brown, OH's one-to-four unit structures added 149 units in Brown County, OH.