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

Delaware County, Ohio is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Coverage runs to 24 ZIPs across Delaware County, a low 20/100 average. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 48/100 (moderate). The county's ZIP scores run from 11 up to 26/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.0% over the past year, a 22/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +3.0% YoY (22/100 confidence), selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A moderate 48/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading Delaware County on distress: 43016 (26/100), 43054 (26/100), 43081 (26/100), 43235 (26/100), 43017 (25/100), 43013 (22/100). The breakdown continues through 43031, 43040, 43344, 43342, 43065, 43015, 43021, 43032, 43035, 43061 and more.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Delaware County come in at a 4.7% vacancy rate, poverty running near 5.9%, 76% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 40.4, median home values around $373,783 (near the national figure), incomes around $115,982. Read together, they set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Delaware County, Ohio's 20/100 average over 24 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Delaware County property carries owner, address and APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

The distress read for Delaware County, Ohio is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Delaware County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Used properly, Delaware County, Ohio's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Delaware County as a whole. Every Delaware County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

Drilling in, Delaware County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 43016 (26/100), 43054 (26/100), 43081 (26/100), 43235 (26/100), 43017 (25/100), 43013 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 43031, 43040, 43344, 43342, 43065, 43015, 43021, 43032 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

The Delaware County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.