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

Butler County, OH, Ohio: 18 ZIP codes scored, Butler County, OH averaging 25/100 (low, Butler, OH), from 16 to 26. Butler County, OH is in its peak phase (Butler, OH confidence 24/100): Butler, OH home prices up 3.5% (Butler, OH) over twelve months. Butler County, OH lender headwind: 42/100.

Highest-scoring Butler County, OH ZIPs: 45011 (26/100), 45013 (26/100), 45014 (26/100), 45015 (26/100), 45053 (26/100), 45055 (26/100). Also scored in Butler County, OH: 45056, 45062, 45067, 45069, 45042, 45044, 45050, 45241, 45246, 45327.

Across Butler County, OH's scored ZIPs: median home value $240,000, household income $81,879, 7.0% vacancy, 10.5% poverty, 73% owner-occupied, median age 40.4.

Butler County, OH insurance distress 28/100 (#1,662 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Butler, OH; 14 Butler, OH NFIP flood claims, $360K paid; Butler, OH construction distress 59/100.

21 banks with 86 branches lend in Butler County, OH; Butler, OH weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 83/100 in Butler, OH.

Butler County, OH unemployment 3.6% (Butler, OH -0.8 pts, six months); 999 new housing units permitted in Butler County, OH over twelve months, Butler, OH down 12% from 1,130; Butler, OH home prices +10.6% a year (Butler, OH) over three years.

155,372 housing units in Butler County, OH; 43,763 Butler, OH renter households; 43% of Butler, OH renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Butler, OH) half or more.

Butler County, OH ranks #2,818 nationally on the opportunity index (Butler, OH, among all ranked counties); Butler, OH scores 24.3/100 and Butler, OH sits #62 inside Ohio. Butler, OH is in the weak opportunity phase; Butler, OH's primary driver is construction, Butler, OH second driver bank institutional; Butler, OH moved up 107 places. 6 short-sale listings across Butler, OH; 58 days on market observed in Butler, OH; 6.3% vacancy over 18 Butler, OH ZIPs.

0.9% of Butler County, OH mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Butler, OH's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.1% (CFPB county sample). Butler, OH's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Butler, OH peak since 2008 was 4.0% in March 2010; Ohio overall reads 1.0%.

Butler County, OH has 16 watched banks; 16 Butler, OH banks sit in an elevated band. Butler, OH footprints: Fifth Third Bank Na (16 branches, stress 62) in Butler, OH; First Financial Bank (13 branches, stress 47) in Butler, OH; U S Bank National Assn (12 branches, stress 67) in Butler, OH.

HUD lists 18 assisted multifamily properties in Butler County, OH with 1,348 units; 676 Butler, OH units are assisted, 9 Butler, OH properties under project-based Section 8.

8,550 of the 155,372 housing units in Butler, OH sit vacant. Butler County, OH permitted 472 multifamily units in twelve months; Butler, OH's one-to-four unit structures added 527 units in Butler County, OH.