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

Defiance County, OH, Ohio: 16 ZIP codes scored, Defiance County, OH averaging 11/100 (minimal, Defiance, OH), from 6 to 19. Defiance County, OH is in its peak phase (Defiance, OH confidence 28/100): Defiance, OH home prices up 3.9% (Defiance, OH) over twelve months. Defiance County, OH lender headwind: 48/100.

Highest-scoring Defiance County, OH ZIPs: 43506 (19/100), 43517 (16/100), 45831 (15/100), 43527 (13/100), 43545 (13/100), 43548 (12/100). Also scored in Defiance County, OH: 43512, 43519, 43520, 43526, 43530, 43536, 43549, 43556, 45813, 45821.

Across Defiance County, OH's scored ZIPs: median home value $155,343, household income $70,039, 7.7% vacancy, 7.6% poverty, 87% owner-occupied, median age 40.7.

Defiance County, OH insurance distress 0/100 (#2,969 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Defiance, OH; Defiance, OH construction distress 23/100.

10 banks with 16 branches lend in Defiance County, OH; Defiance, OH weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 85/100 in Defiance, OH.

Defiance County, OH unemployment 2.9% (Defiance, OH -1.4 pts, six months); 58 new housing units permitted in Defiance County, OH over twelve months, Defiance, OH up 32% from 44; Defiance, OH home prices +10.1% a year (Defiance, OH) over three years.

16,565 housing units in Defiance County, OH; 3,292 Defiance, OH renter households; 32% of Defiance, OH renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Defiance, OH) half or more.

Defiance County, OH ranks #2,689 nationally on the opportunity index (Defiance, OH, among all ranked counties); Defiance, OH scores 25.0/100 and Defiance, OH sits #53 inside Ohio. Defiance, OH is in the weak opportunity phase; Defiance, OH's primary driver is bank institutional, Defiance, OH second driver vacancy; Defiance, OH moved up 270 places. 114 days on market observed in Defiance, OH; 7.5% vacancy over 16 Defiance, OH ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Defiance County, OH. The non-metro area reading for Defiance, OH: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Defiance, OH's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Defiance, OH, December 2025 data); Ohio overall 1.0%.

Defiance County, OH has 8 watched banks; 8 Defiance, OH banks sit in an elevated band. Defiance, OH footprints: State Bank&Trust Co (3 branches, stress 66) in Defiance, OH; Sherwood State Bank (2 branches, stress 69) in Defiance, OH; Farmers&Merchants State Bank (2 branches, stress 60) in Defiance, OH.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Defiance County, OH with 51 units; 51 Defiance, OH units are assisted, 1 Defiance, OH properties under project-based Section 8.

1,238 of the 16,565 housing units in Defiance, OH sit vacant. Defiance County, OH permitted 3 multifamily units in twelve months; Defiance, OH's one-to-four unit structures added 55 units in Defiance County, OH.