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

Fayette County, Ohio sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 52/100. DLRadar scores 11 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 10/100. ZIP-level distress ranges from 22/100 at the top down to 5/100.

In its peak phase, Fayette County home prices rose 3.9% across the last year, at 28/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Fayette County flat at +3.9% YoY (28/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Mid-range bank stress at 52/100 implies both signal sets in play here.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Fayette County are 45335 (22/100), 43145 (12/100), 45169 (12/100), 43143 (11/100), 43153 (10/100), 45123 (10/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 45135, 43106, 43128, 43142, 43160.

On the housing-and-income side, Fayette County's scored ZIPs show a median household income near $65,437 (below the US norm), 17.1% of households below the poverty line, a 8.6% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 41.8, 69% owner-occupancy, median home values around $173,264 (below the national figure). Taken together, they frame the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

With a minimal 10/100 reading over 11 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Fayette County parcel's owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

Scores in Fayette County, Ohio exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. What supports the Fayette 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 Fayette County leads with 45335 (22/100), 43145 (12/100), 45169 (12/100), 43143 (11/100), 43153 (10/100), 45123 (10/100). DLRadar also scores 45135, 43106, 43128, 43142, 43160 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 Fayette 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.