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

Delaware County, OH, Ohio: 24 ZIP codes scored, Delaware County, OH averaging 22/100 (low, Delaware, OH), from 10 to 33. Delaware County, OH is in its peak phase (Delaware, OH confidence 22/100): Delaware, OH home prices up 3.0% (Delaware, OH) over twelve months. Delaware County, OH lender headwind: 48/100.

Highest-scoring Delaware County, OH ZIPs: 43081 (33/100), 43235 (33/100), 43016 (32/100), 43054 (32/100), 43013 (29/100), 43017 (29/100). Also scored in Delaware County, OH: 43031, 43040, 43344, 43342, 43015, 43021, 43032, 43035, 43061, 43065.

Across Delaware County, OH's scored ZIPs: median home value $373,783, household income $115,982, 4.7% vacancy, 5.9% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 40.4.

Delaware County, OH insurance distress 5/100 (#2,476 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Delaware, OH; 2 federal disaster declarations in Delaware County, OH since 2023; 1 Delaware, OH NFIP flood claims; Delaware, OH construction distress 50/100.

17 banks with 58 branches lend in Delaware County, OH; Delaware, OH weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 82/100 in Delaware, OH.

Delaware County, OH unemployment 3.1% (Delaware, OH -0.5 pts, six months); 2,078 new housing units permitted in Delaware County, OH over twelve months, Delaware, OH up 1% from 2,059; Delaware, OH home prices +10.3% a year (Delaware, OH) over three years.

86,269 housing units in Delaware County, OH; 17,549 Delaware, OH renter households; 37% of Delaware, OH renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Delaware, OH) half or more.

Delaware County, OH ranks #2,984 nationally on the opportunity index (Delaware, OH, among all ranked counties); Delaware, OH scores 23.3/100 and Delaware, OH sits #72 inside Ohio. Delaware, OH is in the weak opportunity phase; Delaware, OH's primary driver is bank institutional, Delaware, OH second driver construction; Delaware, OH moved up 83 places. 85 short-sale listings across Delaware, OH; 78 days on market observed in Delaware, OH; 4.3% vacancy over 24 Delaware, OH ZIPs.

0.2% of Delaware County, OH mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Delaware, OH's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.1% (CFPB county sample). Delaware, OH's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Delaware, OH peak since 2008 was 2.2% in March 2010; Ohio overall reads 1.0%.

Delaware County, OH has 12 watched banks; 12 Delaware, OH banks sit in an elevated band. Delaware, OH footprints: Huntington National Bank (9 branches, stress 63) in Delaware, OH; Jpmorgan Chase Bank Na (8 branches, stress 65) in Delaware, OH; Fifth Third Bank Na (5 branches, stress 62) in Delaware, OH.

HUD lists 12 assisted multifamily properties in Delaware County, OH with 601 units; 222 Delaware, OH units are assisted, 3 Delaware, OH properties under project-based Section 8.

3,982 of the 86,269 housing units in Delaware, OH sit vacant. Delaware County, OH permitted 166 multifamily units in twelve months; Delaware, OH's one-to-four unit structures added 1,912 units in Delaware County, OH.