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

Erie County, Ohio is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 8 to 15 out of 100. Lender pressure in Erie County registers 52/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Coverage runs to 13 ZIPs across Erie County, a minimal 13/100 average.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.9% over the past year (phase confidence 53/100). Under a rising market, pockets of distress persist and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

With growth of +5.9% YoY (53/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. A mid-cycle 52/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 43438 (15/100), ZIP 43464 (15/100), ZIP 44089 (15/100), ZIP 44814 (15/100), ZIP 44824 (15/100), ZIP 44839 (15/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 44846, 44870, 44889, 44811, 44847, 44826, 44857.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Erie County report median home values around $207,862 (below the national figure), vacancy near 15.2%, an owner-occupied share of 79%, a median age of 46.5, 8.8% of households below the poverty line, household income averaging about $67,221, below the national median. Income, equity and tenure like these drive how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

At 13/100 composite over 13 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Erie County parcel's owner, APN and address, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

No county is too small to score: Erie County, Ohio runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Erie County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Ohio.

For anyone buying in Erie County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 15/100. What supports the Erie County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Erie County leads with 43438 (15/100), 43464 (15/100), 44089 (15/100), 44814 (15/100), 44824 (15/100), 44839 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 44846, 44870, 44889, 44811, 44847, 44826, 44857 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Erie County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.